This page contains a series of links, notes, and examples to help you get started using Planning Data.

Organisations

• organisations — organisations relevant to planning
• organisation.csv — our organisation datasets in a single file, including historic organisations marked with an end-date.

Our data includes ONS/GSS codes for the local authority district, national park area, local planning authority boundary, and other geographies, along with wikipedia, wikidata useful when reconciling data from different sources.

Local Planning Authorities

In England a Local Planning Authority (LPA) is an organisation responsible for planning within an area. Organisations who act as the LPA include some, but not all Local Authorities, National Park Authorities and Development Corporations.

Selecting and filtering role-organisations with the role local-planning-authority and a blank end-date the current list of active Local Planning Authorities (311 organisations).

Local plans

We are in the process of developing a specification for LPAs to provide data about their local plan, with some data on the platform:

• local-plan
• local-plan-boundary
• local-plan-document
• local-plan-timetable

In the meantime our local plans prototype has information about current local plans including the target hosing number extracted from the documents available in single CSV file.

Planning considerations

backups of the considerations Postgres database.

Planning applications

advisory group

Land calculator

land-calculator

Barnet conservation areas

barnet-conservation-areas

Projects

Our Open Digital Planning project page includes an example of how to use planning data to create a SVG choropleth map.

Funding

Data availability and quality

Planning Data is under development — where we have data, it may not yet cover the whole country.

Documentation

• API
• Datasets
• Dataset specifications
• Team handbook

Open data

Most of the data on the platform is availabile under the Open Government Licence, meaning anyone can view, build services using the data or download and analyse the data to inform planning and other decisions.

Attribution and licensing terms are documented against each dataset.

Code

The code behind the Planning Data platform is available as open source. The team work in the open at github.com/digital-planning and welcome contributions:

• digital-land.info — the planning.data.gov.uk application
• specification — where we manage our specifications
• config — where we configure our data sources and data pipeline
• digital-land-python — our data pipeline which collects from plannling authorities and transforms it into our datasets
• submit — the submit.planning.data.gov.uk application where we give feedback to planning authorities providing data
• design — the design.planning.data.gov.uk how we discover and co-design datasets for the platform

Contributing

We work in the open, and welcome your feedback and contributions. You can help:

• identify missing data, and inform the design of the datasets we put on the platform by participating in the data design process
• prioritise our work by commenting on our project backlogs
• improve this guidance through by making a pull-request to the quickstart repository or participating in the quickstart GitHub discussion.