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Aberdeenshire planning data

13,063 planning applications from Aberdeenshire. Ask questions about them in plain English from ChatGPT or Claude — no coding, about two minutes to set up — or pull them straight into your own software. 13 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

13,063

Applications

144

Enforcement notices

397

Appeals

1995–2026

Date range

What Aberdeenshire decides

Aberdeenshire has approved 93.34% of the 11,239 applications it has decided since January 2023. Across the 225 councils with a comparable caseload the range is 71.37% to 99.14%, so this is at or above the middle of the pack (89.18%).

93.34%

Approved, of 11,239 decided

Median days to a decision

129.7

Average days

What it mostly decides

The mix of application types Aberdeenshire handles — useful for telling whether your kind of application is routine here or unusual.

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	8,237	63.1%
Other	2,620	20.1%
Listed building	1,129	8.6%
Tree	497	3.8%
Advertisement	406	3.1%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Aberdeenshire actually fills in

A "field" is one piece of information on an application — the decision date, the applicant's name, the address. Councils fill these in inconsistently, so this table measures how often Aberdeenshire actually provides each one, across all 13,063 records. Anything listed as reliable you can count on; anything lower, check the council's own record before relying on it.

Once this data is connected to ChatGPT or Claude you can just ask "what information does Aberdeenshire actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Address `address`	13,063	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	13,063	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	13,063	100.0%
Status `status`	13,062	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	13,062	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	13,052	99.9%
Date received `received_date`	13,054	99.9%
Ward `ward`	13,029	99.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	12,589	96.4%
Decision `decision`	12,586	96.3%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	12,240	93.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	12,199	93.4%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	12,069	92.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	11,602	88.8%
Agent's name `agent_name`	11,324	86.7%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	11,020	84.4%
Case officer `case_officer`	10,143	77.6%
Postcode `postcode`	9,900	75.8%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	9,289	71.1%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,332	10.2%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	440	3.4%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	155	1.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	155	1.2%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Aberdeenshire's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

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Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Aberdeenshire last year?" or "what's the planning history of this address?" — no coding, about two minutes to set up. Setup guide →

Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=150&limit=5"

Council id for Aberdeenshire is 150. Full API reference for developers →

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