Planning application data standard
The planning application data standard defines how planning application data should be structured so that planning information is easier to submit, understand, validate and reuse.
The standard gives planning authorities, software suppliers and data users a shared way to describe planning application information.
It defines the data needed to create a planning application, record what happens during the planning permission process and publish consistent data where it is needed.
The standard defines data at the points where systems need to exchange, validate or publish planning application information.
The standard will continue to evolve as planning authorities, software suppliers and data users test it in practice and new needs are identified.
What do you need to do?
Create application data
Use application types to see what information is needed for a specific kind of planning application.
Each application type shows the data that must be provided and how it should be structured.
Record data during the planning process
Use datasets to see what information should be recorded as a planning application moves through the planning permission process.
Datasets include records for applications, sites, documents, decisions, conditions, section 106 agreements and timeline events.
Understand how the model works
The standard is made from connected parts. Read about the data model if you need to understand how all the parts, applications, modules, components, fields, codelists and datasets, fit together.
This is the best place to start if you are not sure where to find a definition or how the parts of the standard relate to each other.
What's next
National public view
A national public view will define the open data that should be published from the wider planning application data standard.
It is being developed as an explicit extraction from the standard.
Read about the national public view.
Give feedback
This viewer is being developed in the open. You can give feedback on this or the standards on GitHub.
Give feedback on GitHub if you want to suggest an improvement to the standard or this viewer.