{
  "study_id": "C2-APPEAL-GUIDANCE-2026-10-25-v2",
  "observed_date": "2026-10-25",
  "question": "How explicitly do six selected council appeal/post-decision pages explain the date/procedure distinction affecting fresh neighbour comments?",
  "continuity": "Different question and pages from B4 eight-council application-comment study; no trend comparison.",
  "sample": [
    "Camden",
    "Hackney",
    "Wandsworth",
    "Southwark",
    "Islington",
    "Kensington and Chelsea"
  ],
  "sample_reason": "Purposive continuity with six programme-priority boroughs. Not a representative sample.",
  "selection": "One official general appeal or post-decision explanation per council, resolved by a domain-restricted search. Page URLs fixed in observation file before final coding; exploratory discovery was not preregistered. Applicant-facing and general pages are heterogeneous.",
  "retrieval": "Public web open/text retrieval of six exact URLs on 25 October 2026. Read entire main content, including reopened continuation for Southwark and RBKC. No substitution. Crawled text can be cached; origin-server freshness not proven.",
  "codes": {
    "YES": "Explicit statement on fixed page",
    "NOT_STATED": "Not explicit on this selected page; no whole-site inference",
    "UNOBSERVABLE": "Page inaccessible; excluded from observable count and reported separately"
  },
  "fields": {
    "application_date_trigger": "Explicitly ties applications submitted on/after 1 April 2026 to appeal-procedure change.",
    "part1_named": "Uses Part 1 in appeal procedure explanation.",
    "original_comments_carried": "Explicitly says original public comments are forwarded or considered on appeal.",
    "part1_no_fresh_comments": "Explicitly denies fresh comments in the context of named Part 1.",
    "other_procedures_comment_opportunity": "Explicitly contrasts interested people's fresh-comment opportunity in Part 2/hearing/inquiry with Part 1. Naming procedures or a single case-specific inquiry participation notice alone does not meet this field."
  },
  "replication_steps": [
    "Open six exact A01-A06 URLs, recording title, visible date labels and access status.",
    "Read entire main page content including expanded sections; do not silently substitute a richer page.",
    "Code five fields using definitions; retain NOT_STATED and UNOBSERVABLE, with source section locators.",
    "Keep S01 supplementary Hackney committee wording outside counts. Keep N01/N02 national comparator outside counts.",
    "Run reproduce-counts.mjs against JSON to count YESs; expected values 1,1,2,1,0 out of six observable selected pages.",
    "Refresh all six and national comparator before publication. Preserve old observations; produce dated change log and recode if wording changed.",
    "Separate ChatGPT source verification must check coding and contextual caveats before owner publication decision."
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "Six London councils only; no national inference or rankings.",
    "Not a legal-compliance audit.",
    "No measurement of user behaviour, full council information, resident letters or actual case deadlines.",
    "Page update labels can apply to reusable notices; RBKC displayed two distinct dates.",
    "Report records uncertainty instead of fixing council instructions by assumption.",
    "Sensitivity counterexample retained: Hackney includes a specific inquiry participation notice, and Wandsworth names other procedures. The fifth field is a contrast measure, not a general participation-mention count. Operational definition clarified during exploratory review; no preregistration claimed."
  ],
  "licence": "Paraphrased factual observations; national PINS material OGL v3, attribution retained; no third-party plans, images or personal representations.",
  "corrections": {
    "contact": "hello@neighbourobjection.co.uk",
    "policy": "Retain original version, record source/claim/date change, recode affected row, recompute counts and update report/pitches consistently. Material changes return to owner review.",
    "refresh": "Immediately before publication and later when a relevant source change is found; no new automation created."
  },
  "review_description": "Prepared using ChatGPT. Separate ChatGPT reviews refreshed all six fixed council pages and the national comparator on 25 October 2026. Council coding and counts were independently checked; no coding changed. This is not professional planning or legal-compliance certification.",
  "previous_study_id": "C2-APPEAL-GUIDANCE-2026-10-24-v1"
}