PlanAPI gives you API access to every planning application across 400+ UK councils. Applications, decisions, spatial search, and real-time updates. Refreshed daily.
No spam, just an email once a space is available.
Developers building property tools, construction lead platforms, or mapping products have to scrape, parse, and normalise data themselves, or pay five-figure sums for static spreadsheet exports from legacy providers.
PlanAPI solves this. One REST API. Every council. Updated daily. Clean JSON responses with consistent field names, pagination, and spatial queries built in.
Data sourced from council portals, updated every 24 hours. Always current.
Search by postcode or lat/lng with a radius. Build maps, alerts, and proximity features.
Query descriptions, addresses, and references simultaneously. Indexed across millions of records.
400+ local planning authorities. England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland. One format.
Subscribe to new applications or decision changes. Filter by area, type, or council.
Free tier to start. Monthly subscriptions that scale. No annual lock-in, no sales calls.
Verify borrower planning claims in seconds. Monitor portfolio sites for status changes. Power LTV calculations with accurate, up-to-date permission data.
Surface nearby planning applications on listings. Alert buyers and investors to new development activity around properties they're watching.
Spot granted permissions the day they land. Reach projects and bid on work before competitors even know they exist.
Monitor client sites programmatically. Benchmark approval rates and decision patterns across local planning authorities.
Track application volumes by region, type, and outcome. Identify where the development pipeline is accelerating before official statistics catch up.
Overlay live planning applications on your maps. Query by radius, bounding box, or postcode using the spatial search endpoint.
Request access and we'll be in touch when spaces are available. One email, no noise.