Planning Data aims to make land and housing data easier to find, understand, use, and trust.

We believe this will lead to: 

• better planning decisions 
• fewer uncertainties and delays in the housing system 
• more new digital services for property and planning 
• better relationships between communities and developments.

Our platform collects planning and housing data from local planning authorities (LPAs) and transforms it into a consistent state, across England. Anyone can view, download, and analyse the data we hold.

Data collections

You can view the data we currently have: 

• as text 
• on a map 

LPAs store data in different ways. We're working with our partners on how to collect the data in a way that the platform understands, with minimum work and technical expertise for LPAs. This means ongoing work on the platform and data collection pipeline, as well as creating data standards. 

Data standards

Data standards are instructions for how to organise data, in order to share it effectively. They make it possible for platforms like Planning Data to collect data from a wide range of sources, and automatically produce correct and consistent outputs.

We want to minimise the work LPAs will need to do to contribute their data. We have created guidance on how to meet the standards, and will continue to revise this through user testing. 

How the data will be used

The data is available for anyone to download, analyse, interpret, and use to develop tools and services, under the terms of the open licence and attribution for each dataset.

UK PropTech

The UK has a growing property technology sector with global ambitions. The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (formerly the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities) is working closely with the sector, including through Digital Citizen Engagement pilots and the PropTech Advisory Council. 

While the data for this site has been designed for the modernisation of public sector planning services, we are exposing it so it can also be used by the UK PropTech sector without expensive and complex workarounds to scrape, acquire, or deduce the data from the state.

We are keen to hear from and potentially highlight external users of this data, and to get feedback about how we can improve this service. To get in touch with the team, contact digitalland@levellingup.gov.uk.