Editorial method

How records are made

• MinutesRadar collects public council minutes, extracts meeting text, identifies decisions, affected places, named projects and likely next steps, then generates crawlable pages from the structured record.
• Article pages are only created when the minutes contain a clear local angle and enough source detail to support a plain-language story.
• Topic, area and project pages are generated from extracted evidence, not from manually invented keyword lists.

Quality controls

• The generator keeps weak area and project pages out of search indexes when there is not enough distinct local evidence yet.
• Broad issue matching is deliberately conservative so an address, legal act or generic construction word does not make one decision appear under unrelated topics.
• Pages include source links and dates so readers can check the record trail.