UK Planning Data

UK Planning Data

Official UK government platform for planning and housing data. No authentication required.

Data Model

• Entity — A single planning record (application, conservation area, listed building, etc.) identified by a numeric entity ID.
• Dataset — A named collection of entities (e.g. "planning-application", "conservation-area", "listed-building-outline").
• Typology — Classification of entities: "geography" (spatial), "organisation", "category", etc.

Key Fields in Entity Results

• entity — Unique numeric identifier
• name — Human-readable name (may be empty for planning applications)
• dataset — Which dataset this entity belongs to
• reference — External reference (e.g. planning application number "23/00002/FUL")
• description — Free text description of the entity
• organisation-entity — Numeric ID of the responsible organisation
• point — WKT point geometry (e.g. "POINT (-0.127 51.507)")
• geometry — WKT polygon/multipolygon geometry
• entry-date — When the record was last updated
• start-date / end-date — Temporal validity

Useful Datasets

• planning-application — ~100k planning applications with decision dates
• conservation-area — ~11k designated conservation areas with boundaries
• listed-building-outline — Listed building geometries
• article-4-direction-area — Article 4 direction areas
• tree-preservation-zone — Tree preservation orders

Pagination

• Use limit and offset query parameters
• Response includes links.next and count for total results