About
One postcode, the whole picture.
Almost everything that shapes a neighbourhood is already public. The planning application on the corner, the consultation closing on Friday, the flood warning, the nature reserve nobody uses, the defibrillator on the wall of the village hall — all of it is published somewhere, by someone, in a format designed for a different purpose.
The problem was never secrecy. It was that you would need to know about eleven different websites, and to check them regularly, and to hold the connections between them in your head. Almost nobody does that, which is why most people find out about a decision after it has been taken.
Community Connect puts it in one place, for one postcode, organised the way a place actually works rather than the way government departments are arranged.
Why seven strands
The King’s Foundation describes Harmony as the recognition that people, place and the natural world are connected rather than separate — and that the way to solve problems is to work with nature rather than against it. Its work runs across three broad areas: the built environment, the natural environment, and heritage and tradition.
CommUNIty is about uniting by learning. Six of these strands come from that Harmony framing, adapted to the things a resident can actually act on. The seventh is ours.
Strand I
Nature & Environment
The green space, heathland, woodland and water on your doorstep — how clean the air is, where it floods, and where you can help.
Strand II
Place & Development
What is being proposed, built and dug up around you. Most of it is decided in public, on a deadline — but only if somebody notices in time.
Strand III
Community & Connection
The halls, groups and events that hold a neighbourhood together — and the practical ways to contribute to it rather than only complain about it.
Strand IV
Health & Wellbeing
Where the nearest defibrillator is before you need it, who to call, and the sport and wellbeing services that keep people well in the first place.
Strand V
Learning & Skills
CommUNIty is about uniting by learning. Where learning already happens near you, plus the talks, workshops and skills sessions open to everyone.
Strand VI
Heritage & Identity
Harmony places real weight on respecting place, tradition and what came before. What is protected near you, and what makes this neighbourhood distinctive.
Strand VII
Future Generations
A community isn't a collection of separate issues. Planning affects traffic. Traffic affects air quality. Development affects wildlife. Green space affects wellbeing. This strand reads the other six together.
Where the information comes from
Every figure on a postcode page is fetched live from a public source. Nothing is estimated, and nothing is written by hand.
- Postcodes.io / ONS
- Turns a postcode into a location, ward, council and constituency.
- PlanIt
- Planning applications, collected from council planning portals across the UK.
- OpenStreetMap
- Green space, community buildings, defibrillators, schools, libraries, heritage features and health services.
- data.police.uk
- Street-level recorded crime, published monthly by police forces.
- Environment Agency
- Live flood alerts and warnings.
- Open-Meteo / Copernicus CAMS
- Modelled hourly air quality.
- UK Parliament Members API
- The sitting MP for your constituency.
What it can’t tell you
Being straight about the limits matters more than looking complete.
- Map data is volunteered. OpenStreetMap is only as complete as the people who mapped your area. An empty list means “nothing recorded”, not “nothing there” — and we always say which of the two we mean.
- Planning registers run on a delay. A very recent application may not have been collected yet. Your council’s own register is always the authority, and every application here links straight to it.
- Crime figures are two months behind and are snapped to anonymised map points, never real addresses. One month in one small area is far too small a sample to read a trend from, and it is not a comparison between neighbourhoods.
- Air quality is modelled, not measured. It is a good indication for an area, not a reading from your street.
- Council deep links are curated by hand. There are around 360 councils and no open register of where each publishes its committee papers. Where we haven’t mapped yours yet, we say so and fall back to national services rather than guessing a link.
- Future Generations asks questions, it does not predict. Every number in that strand is measured from the six above it. Every forward-looking line is a question, because nobody can honestly tell you what your neighbourhood looks like in twenty years.
Who made it
Community Connect is a project by CommUNIty. It is built in the spirit of Harmony and is not published by, or affiliated with, The King’s Foundation.