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CatalogFamiliesPlanning applications and decisions

Planning applications and decisions

Permit / authorisation Planning and land use

Applications to develop land and the authority's decisions on them, typically held per local authority with hundreds of separate portals in a single country.

2 of ~420 local planning authorities in the UK catalogued. This family is fragmented — the 2 below are a sample, not coverage.

Who asks for this

Building-products sales rep timing an approach to a developer

What it answers

Answers "what is being built here, by whom, and was it approved" — the earliest reliable signal of construction activity, used by suppliers, developers and residents.

Record classPermit / authorisation permit_authorisation
SectorPlanning and land use REGI>planning
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Typical fields

Catalogued instances (2)

DatasetJurisdictionClassAccessLicenceStatusReq.
Ireland National Planning Application DatabaseIrelandPermit / authorisationapiverifiedrequested
UK planning applications and decisionsUnited KingdomPermit / authorisationmixedunverifiedrequested

Each instance is a separate publisher with its own licence. We never infer a licence from the family, the publisher or the country — the Environment Agency publishes one dataset under the Open Government Licence and another marked all rights reserved.