UK Planit News
Coverage
This site covers almost all UK (and Crown Dependency) planning authorities. However in a few cases the data are or were unavailable. Details of these authorities and their websites are below. There is also live list of planning areas that have not returned any planning data for the last 6 weeks.
Full data from earlier periods - but planning data are currently not possible to access- Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park - data up to March 2025 (Incapsula)
- North East Derbyshire District Council - data up to December 2024 (Cloudflare)
- Tewkesbury Borough Council - data up to August 2024 (Cloudflare)
- Camden London Borough Council - data up to June 2024 (Cloudflare)
- St Albans District Council - data up to April 2024 (CAPTCHA)
- Braintree District Council - data up to November 2023 (Cloudflare)
- Hampshire County Council - data up to April 2023 (Cloudflare)
- Preston City Council - data up to February 2023 (CAPTCHA)
- Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council - data up to October 2019
- Surrey County Council - data up to January 2019 (Incapsula)
- Tower Hamlets London Borough Council - after July 2023 (reCAPTCHA)
- Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council - after July 2021 (reCAPTCHA)
- Carlisle City Council - after November 2020 (reCAPTCHA)
- Newcastle Under Lyme Borough Council - February 2022 to February 2025
- Milton Keynes Council - October 2020 to September 2024
- Brent London Borough Council - April 2022 to July 2024
- Lewisham London Borough Council - August 2023 to October 2023
- Croydon London Borough Council - May 2023 to August 2023
- City of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council - January 2023 to May 2023
- Northumberland County Council - April 2022 to May 2023
- Chelmsford City Council - July 2021 to November 2022
- Woking Borough Council - May 2021 to ?
- Cheshire West and Chester Council - April 2021 to ?
- Greater Cambridge Shared Planning (Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire District Councils) - February 2021 to ?
- Colchester Borough Council - December 2020 to ?
- Leeds City Council - September 2020 to September 2022
- Peak District National Park - March 2020 to ?
Changes
June 2025 changes:
- API now has 'decided', 'decided_start', 'decided_end' parameters to allow searches on decision dates.
March 2025 changes:
- New planning authorities added for Welsh and Scottish major infrastructure and energy projects, in addition to those already existing for Northern Ireland, England and Wales
- Renamed some Scottish areas for consistency (to append 'shire') -> Clackmannan, East Ayr, East Dunbarton, East Renfrew, North Ayr, North Lanark, Renfrew, South Ayr, South Lanark, West Dunbarton
October 2024 changes:
- New Planitogram interactive node chart
December 2023 changes:
- API response content now limited to 1000kB in size.
July 2023 changes:
- API now has 'changed', 'changed_start', 'changed_end', 'different', 'different_start', 'different_end' parameters to allow delta downloads of updated data.
- The 'search' field now accepts multiple phrases in quotes and use of logical 'or' operator and '-' (not) prefix.
- Live application documents and personal details are viewable - the 'Show Details' page for each planning application now has personal names and a table of links to the documents (where available).
API changed (January 2023) to add 'no_location' parameter to find applications missed by spatial searches because they have no location
Previous API changes (March 2022) are as follows:
- Default page size for planning area queries set to 10
- Errors now return a payload with an explanatory message in an 'error' field
- The default error code is a 400, however if rate limits are exceeded a 429 status code is returned (look at the error message or the Retry-After header to see when you can try again).
Important site changes (July 2021) are as follows:
- The underlying technology is now based on Python 3, PostgreSQL and PostgREST (was Python 2 and MongoDB)
- Result and page caching has been improved
- Output in CSV (comma separated values) and TSV (tab separated values) formats is now supported (and XML output has been discontinued)
- There is a new 'Boundary' section which supports spatial searches based on uploaded or online GeoJSON boundaries
- Full text search is supported as well as selection by size, type and state of the application
- API changes:
- Full application data is now returned in searches (no longer necessary to follow 'link' to the application)
- The arbitrary API query 'limit' on total records to be found has been removed ('pg_sz' remains but is just a limit to the records returned)
- New 'search' parameter for matching word phrases in the 'description' field (see the API)
- New 'select' parameter to limit and rename the fields returned (see the API)
- Additional planning applications data fields -> 'last changed', 'last different', 'location', 'location_x', 'location_y', 'n_statutory_days', 'n_dwellings', 'associated id' (see the Data Dictionary)
- Spatial searching for intersecting planning areas using the same parameters as planning applications
- Many additional planning area data fields with information on totals, type of scraper, date limits, regions and planning status (see the Data Dictionary)