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What better to do on a wet and wild Saturday than play around with some KML and the Google Earth plugin?

I unearthed some old work I did and it struck me how ahead of the times it was, using 3D models to show a community what planning applications in their area looked like. It does make me wonder why it isn’t a requirement to publish all large planning applications like this so that communities can visualise and discuss the impact of planning applications.

This is the first time I’ve had a play with the GEarth plugin and I must say it was a doddle to throw together this simple viewer:

The large tower block was the planning application in question, does anybody know if it went ahead?