Guidance

As part of our efforts to improve land and housing data we are working with local planning authorities and other users of the data to create guidance around a range of subjects. These will include complying with different requirements for publishing data, mapping data, understanding data definitions and specifications, and more.

Guidance we are piloting

• Publish your development plan data

  When publishing your development plan data, follow this guidance on how to format, label and publish the data.

Archived guidance

• Publish your brownfield land data

  When publishing your brownfield land data, follow this guidance on how to format, label and publish the data.

• Publish your developer contributions data

  When publishing your developer contributions data, follow this guidance on how to format, label and publish the data.

• Publish your conservation area data

  Follow our guidance on publishing conservation area data.

• Data principles

  Follow our data principles to ensure consistency of data across all data sets.

• Pipeline: how we collect and process data

  Our pipeline process collects individual publications of data and turns them into a national dataset.

• Finding the local authority for an address

  Follow our guidance when you are trying to work out which Local Authority an address is in.

• Publish your development plans data

  When publishing your development plans data, follow this guidance on how to format, label and publish the data.

• Publish your Sites data

  Follow our guidance on publishing your Sites data.

• Publish your local plan as data

  Follow our guidance on publishing your local plan as data.

• Publish your geographies as data

  Follow our guidance on publishing your geographies as data.