United Kingdom · planning · decisions
Planning applications and decisions from UK local planning authorities. Each authority runs its own portal, but a free national aggregator already exists with 420 authorities and 20.6 million applications, alongside a government open-data service.
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We build datasets in the order people request them. A request is a vote, and the count is public.
| Publisher | Local planning authorities |
|---|---|
| Publication mandate | not established |
| Licence | unverified — treat as all-rights-reserved not verified |
| Access method | mixed |
| Fragmentation | 420 authorities |
| Update frequency | continuous |
| Free structured version | yes — https://www.planit.org.uk/ PlanIt aggregates 420 authorities and ~20.6M applications with a free API; planning.data.gov.uk publishes official open data. |
| Who else serves this | Glenigan, Barbour ABI (listed as caution, not endorsement — an existing free or commercial service is often the most useful thing on this page) |
| mandated publication | pass |
|---|---|
| terms permissive or silent | unknown |
| no login paywall captcha personal data | pass |
| no specialist legal advice needed | pass |
| verdict | pass |
Legally simple; commercially crowded.
Last checked 2026-08-25.
Fourteen years of volunteer scrapers is a demand signal that turned out to mean 'solved', not 'open'.