# Viewing planning applications with Lamdera

**URL:** <https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/viewing-planning-applications-with-lamdera/10889>\
**Category:** Show and Tell\
**Created:** [August 19, 2026, 9:20am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/viewing-planning-applications-with-lamdera/10889 "2026-08-19T09:20:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![peterjamesward](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/peterjamesward/32/3759_2.png) [@peterjamesward](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/peterjamesward)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 9:20am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/viewing-planning-applications-with-lamdera/10889/1 "2026-08-19T09:20:24Z")

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I wrote an app for viewing local planning applications. I found an API ([plannexus.io](http://plannexus.io)) that would avoid having to scrape the local council portal, but the free tier is heavily rate limited. I thought that using a client-server architecture I could pull once from the API to the server and use it as a cache for many clients. This is a perfect fit for Lamdera. It works a treat; does an incremental fetch daily and API usage is low. I’m fairly pleased with the approach to throttling. For a sufficiently small locale and time window, volumes of applications are low.

Repo: [GitHub - peterjamesward/planning-info · GitHub](https://github.com/peterjamesward/planning-info)

App: [https://planning-20260726.lamdera.app](https://planning-20260726.lamdera.app)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/elm_lang/original/1X/50a05e53677a2c3b47776d7abd0f113eb50193a1.png) [@system](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2026, 9:20am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/viewing-planning-applications-with-lamdera/10889/2 "2026-08-29T09:20:26Z")

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