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UK planning applications and decisions

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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Where it lives

PublisherLocal planning authorities
Publication mandatenot established
Licenceunverified — treat as all-rights-reserved not verified
Access methodmixed
Fragmentation420 authorities
Update frequencycontinuous
Free structured versionyes — 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 thisGlenigan, Barbour ABI (listed as caution, not endorsement — an existing free or commercial service is often the most useful thing on this page)

Legal screen

mandated publicationpass
terms permissive or silentunknown
no login paywall captcha personal datapass
no specialist legal advice neededpass
verdictpass

Legally simple; commercially crowded.

Sources

Last checked 2026-08-25.

Fourteen years of volunteer scrapers is a demand signal that turned out to mean 'solved', not 'open'.