Planning Applications
This dataset also covers the whole of Great Britain and contains both historical planning applications, made since 1997, and current applications, which are updated on a weekly basis.
For ease of use the applications have been classified into the following ten categories.
- Housing developments or alterations
- Civil engineering construction or maintenance projects (e.g. bridges, runways etc.)
- Transportation facilities (e.g. petrol stations, car parks, airports, etc.)
- Sports/ Leisure developments or alterations
- Education/ Health developments or alterations
- Commercial/ Retail developments or alterations
- Power/ Water/ Telecom developments or alterations
- Hotel/ Catering developments or alterations
- Industrial/ Agricultural developments or alterations and all demolitions
- Public Building developments or alterations
The planning applications, which have been accurately geocoded, are supplied as points and can be imported into any standard GIS.
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The data supplied includes the following attributes:
- Title - A brief description of the planning application.
- Location - Based on details provided by the local authority (see Positional Accuracy below).
- Development type - States the kind of application that has been made. Categories include: new builds, conversions, refurbishments, repairs, and demolitions. If a 'new build' is reported it is possible the development will not be shown on the accompanying map, however, if it is shown the address and map reference is likely to be approximate. If any other category is shown it is likely that the area being developed will already be shown on the map.
- Category - Describes the type of development e.g. offices, commercial and retail, residential.
- Stage - There are 15 stages at which an application for planning permission could be e.g. detail planning, detail approval etc.
- Application reference - The reference given by the local planning authority.
- Date - The date that the application was formally submitted to the local authority by the client or agent, which would only change if an 'Outline' application is then approved and a 'Detail' application takes it's place.
- Project size - Highlights whether the development is small or large according to an estimated development cost - under £100,000 = small; over £100,000 = large.
- Floor space - A measurement of the proposed floor space of a development (i.e. of every level of a development) in square metres.
- No. of Units - The number of units proposed for the development.
- Area - A measurement of the total area of the development in square metres.
- Positional accuracy - Indicates the likely accuracy to which an application has been located on the map. Applications are given a geographical position on the map according to the address given in the application. In some cases where the address supplied is incomplete and an approximate position has been inferred from the incomplete details.
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