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, share 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 does the specification cover?
Submitting an application
The standard defines the information needed for each type of planning application and how it should be structured.
Recording data during the planning permission process
The standard defines the information planning authorities record as an application is validated, assessed and decided. This includes applications, sites, documents, decisions, conditions, planning obligations and process events.
Publishing open data
The national public view defines what planning application data should be published as open data. It is a subset of the information recorded through the planning permission process.
It does not replace a planning authority’s local public register or its decisions about redaction.
Understand the data model
See how submissions, authority records and public views fit together, and where each part of the standard is defined.
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