Planning Applications - Scotland

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Summary

'Development management' is the name given to the process of deciding planning applications and various other associated activities including enforcement of planning controls. For the purposes of planning applications, development in Scotland is put into one of three categories – 'local', 'major' or 'national'. The different categories mean that applications are treated in a way which is suited to the size and complexity of the proposed development and the issues they are likely to raise. Most applications will be for 'local' developments. 'Major' developments include applications for 50 or more homes, certain waste, water, transport and energy-related developments, and larger retail developments. 'National' developments are specific projects which have been identified in the National Planning Framework because of their national importance. Scottish Ministers become involved in a small minority of cases, but only do so where it involves a matter of genuine national interest.

This dataset consists of 3 separate layers:

  1. Planning Applications - Weekly Lists (Points):  A point layer showing an amalgamation of the current calendar year's weekly lists for all Scottish planning authorities in terms of applications registered and/or decided by a planning authority. This should be a complete dataset across Scotland using X/Y co-ordinates, UPRN or postcode as corresponding geometry. This is categorised by application status, planning authority and date of weekly list.
  2. Planning Applications - Weekly Lists (Polygons): A polygon layer showing an amalgamation of the current calendar year's weekly lists for most Scottish planning authorities in terms of applications registered and/or decided by a planning authority. This is only for authorities that publish site boundary mapping data online. This is categorised by application status, planning authority and date of weekly list.
  3. Planning Applications - historic year layers (Polygons): Polygon layers for all previous year's planning applications with summary details for most Scottish planning authorities. This is only for authorities that publish site boundary mapping data online and is not complete across Scotland.

This data is collected and published weekly (for weekly lists) and this metadata record is updated weekly.

Moray's planning data has currently been removed from this dataset. We will find a solution to this in due course

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Added to data.gov.uk
2020-08-11T09:03:26
Access contraints
Limitations on public access
Harvest GUID
b56b7117-21f6-49b4-bd82-c58b6ad73b69
Extent
Latitude: 60.74784° to 54.38113°
Longitude: -8.02985° to 0.32254°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4258
Dataset reference date
2020-08-11 (revision)
Frequency of update
weekly
Responsible party
The Improvement Service (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
Source Metadata
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