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Planning Data platform (planning.data.gov.uk)
MHCLG Digital Land / Planning Data team
- Licence
- Open, with conditions
- Cost
- Free, conditions apply
- Account needed
- Unclear
- Harvestable
- Automated
What it contains
100+ standardised national planning and land datasets for England: conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, article 4 directions, green belt, brownfield land registers, local plan boundaries, ancient woodland, flood risk zones, sites of special scientific interest - all normalised to a common entity model with stable identifiers.
When you need it
Useful at these project stages, from the working group's stage matrix:
- Matched on
- Description of adjacent buildings and projects; Constraints, regulation and consenting data (not a matrix item)
- Assigned by
- Matched to data items the matrix names
Coverage and detail
- Geographic
- England
- Nations
- England
- Resolution
- Entity/parcel polygon
- Formats
- JSON, GeoJSON, CSV, Parquet
- Update cadence
- Continuous ingestion from LPAs
Access and machine route
- Licence as stated
- Open Government Licence v3.0 (some Crown copyright caveats)
- Assertion source
- as published by MHCLG Digital Land / Planning Data team
- Protocol
- REST/JSON + GeoJSON, OpenAPI-described; bulk Parquet/CSV downloads
- Endpoint
- https://www.planning.data.gov.uk/entity.json
- Harvest note
- yes-automated note recorded in the machine_endpoint field: /dataset.json OpenAPI spec at
Caveats
TOP-TIER HARVEST TARGET. Coverage per dataset depends on how many LPAs have published - conservation areas and article 4s are patchy. England only.
Classification
- Category
- Constraints, Regulation & Consenting
- Sub-category
- 4.3 Planning, land use & heritage
- Assigned by
- Stated by the source
- Depth domain
- Surface
- Data form
- Tabular, Vector
- Evidence confidence
- Not yet assessed. Only a person can set this.
How current this entry is
- Last updated here
- 2026-09-22
- Last checked against the holder
- 2026-09-07
- Checked by a person
- Not yet. Nobody has read this entry.
- Catalogue id
- planning-data-platform-planning-data-gov-uk
Open at MHCLG Digital Land
Open, but conditions apply. Check before use.
Resolved
A server answered on 2026-09-08 and returned the expected page.
Checked by automated request, not in a browser. A site can answer a script and still fail for a reader, so treat this as a weak signal.
Machine endpoint (JSON, GeoJSON, CSV, Parquet)
Additional link (JSON, GeoJSON, CSV, Parquet)
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