Coverage
What we hold, and where it runs out.
Any platform can list what it covers. This page also lists what it does not, because a gap you know about is a gap you can work around and a gap you discover late is a refused application.
- Layers drawing real geometry from a named source
- 88Layers drawing real geometry from a named source
- Declared in the catalogue but not yet wired
- 7Declared in the catalogue but not yet wired
- Live authorities with a public profile
- 378Live authorities with a public profile
- Abolished districts kept for history
- 29Abolished districts kept for history
The honest half
Declared is not the same as live.
The layer catalogue declares 95 layers. 88 of them draw real geometry from a named government source. The remaining 7 are listed so the catalogue is complete, and they are labelled in the panel itself.
That labelling matters more than it sounds. An unlabelled stub renders an empty map, and an empty map reads as an empty site, which is the most dangerous false negative this product could produce.
Per authority
What is held for each council.
Every authority has a profile page, and it states what is held for that authority rather than for the country as a whole.
| What | Coverage |
|---|---|
| Boundary and identifiers | Every live authority in the United Kingdom. |
| Applications and decisions | Every authority published through planning.data.gov.uk, refreshed daily. |
| Adopted local plan | Held for the large majority. Policy retrieval is grounded in the adopted plan for those authorities, and the profile says so where it is not. |
| Validation requirements | Where the authority publishes a list we can reach. A handful block automated access, and those are named rather than silently skipped. |
| Levy charging zones | Zone geometry is held for many but not all. Where it is absent the charging area is reported as unknown rather than guessed. |
| Abolished districts | 29 kept for their historic applications. Excluded from the directory; their pages redirect to the successor authority. |
Devolved nations
England is better served, and we say so.
The English publishing infrastructure is simply further along. Where a Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish figure is not available at the same quality, the appraisal returns a check-with-your- authority note rather than an England number wearing a devolved badge.
- Constraints
- All four nations
- Heritage, ecology, flood and landscape designations are published nation by nation and we hold all four.
- Decisions
- Strongest in England
- planning.data.gov.uk is an England service. Devolved decision data is thinner and is marked as such.
- Fees
- England published in full
- Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland set their own, and we do not restate them as if they were ours to publish.
Check your own authority.
Every profile states what is held for that council specifically, including the fields we do not have.