Archive of comments made to councillors on https://www.planningalerts.org.au
This is an archive of publically visible comments made to councillors on PlanningAlerts roughly between 2016 and 2019.
The data is exported in the YAML format with only publically visible information included. We've also include councillor information and any replies from the councillors.
The ability to send comments to councillors was disabled in 2019 because the overhead of maintaining an up-to-date list of all the councillors for many, many councils including their details and images proved to be far too difficult a task to do well.
Also, some core bits of technology, most importantly WriteIt was discontinued and so pretty big changes would have needed to be made to get it all working properly again.
If we rebuild / recreate this feature in the future we will likely have to focus earlier on on finding a sustainable way for the councillor information to be kept up to-date. One passing idea is to only add councillors to a particular local council if a small group of local people nominate themselves as maintainers of the data for their council. They are the people most motivated to keep things up to date. Of course we don't really know if that would work in practise but it might be one place to start in the future.