Southwark BOPS

This Southwark BOPS (Back Office Planning System) prototype is a proof of concept of integration with the Hackney SMPA (Submit My Planning Application).

It is capable of displaying a list of all applications exposed on the SMPA API and giving some details for each of them:

• summary of proposal
• property details:
  • address
  • property type
  • whether it's a listed building
  • whether it's in a conservation area
• map with property boundaries
• uploaded documents

Configuration

Environment variables

The following environment variables must be present:

Variable	Description
SMPA_API_KEY	Hackney SMPA API key
MAPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN	Mapbox access token
BASIC_AUTH_USER	Username to login to app (blank to allow public)
BASIC_AUTH_PASS	Password to login to app (blank to allow public)

Automatically update SMPA API key on Heroku

In case you are running under Heroku and need to automatically update the SMPA API key, you can use the script in bin/update-smpa-api-key-on-heroku.sh. It requires some variables to be set:

Variable	Description
HEROKU_API_KEY	Heroku API key
HEROKU_APP_NAME	Name of the Heroku app to have the environment updated
SMPA_EMAIL	Email to login to SMPA backend
SMPA_PASSWORD	Password to login to SMPA backend

You're probably interested in adding it to the heroku scheduler addon:

heroku addons:create scheduler:standard
heroku addons:open scheduler

Running

As a regular rails app, running the following line should do the trick:

bundle exec rails s