siteline
Coming SoonWhat's being built near you in Bermuda, and when's the deadline to object. The Government's weekly planning notices, turned into a searchable map and targeted alerts.
Status
Coming Soon
Objection window
0 days
Source
Official Gazette
Coverage
0 parishes
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The Problem
Planning applications in Bermuda are public, but following them is a chore. The only way to keep up today is to read the Official Gazette every week, or sign up for an undifferentiated email blast from the Department of Planning.
So the people most affected — the neighbours next door — usually find out a development is happening after the 14-day window to object has already closed. Public information that nobody can practically act on is not really public at all.
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The Approach
siteline ingests the Government's weekly "List of Planning Applications Advertised" notices from the Official Gazette, parses each entry, and structures it: application number, applicant, address, description, parish, and status.
Addresses are geocoded to a point on the map, and a rules-based pass classifies the application type, storeys, and units. Every application is threaded by its number across the weeks it appears, so each one carries a full timeline rather than a one-off line in a gazette.
How it's built: a Python ingest worker on a schedule, Postgres with PostGIS for radius and near-me queries, and a SvelteKit front end with a Leaflet map. A phase-2 enrichment layer reaches the Tyler EnerGov portal by application UUID for drawings and status history.
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How It Works
Browse and search. Every application lands on an interactive map and a filterable list. Open one to see its full detail and the timeline of every week it has appeared in the Gazette.
Know what's objectable. Objectability is decided per application, off its status — a recent decision such as Final Approval is not objectable, while an In-Principle Approval still is. siteline surfaces that distinction and counts down the 14-day window.
Targeted alerts. Subscribe by parish, by road, or by a radius around your home. When something is proposed inside your area, siteline notifies you over ntfy and email while there's still time to respond.
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The Result
siteline turns a weekly slog through the Gazette into a map you can search and an alert you can trust. It is built so that a resident, a boater, or a business can find out what's proposed next door while it still matters — not after the decision is made.
It joins fix.bm and writethem.bm as the third piece of dot.bm's civic tech work: report a problem, contact your representative, and now keep an eye on what's being built around you. All three take public information that already exists and make it something an islander can actually use.