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East Lothian planning data

4,144 planning applications from East Lothian. 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. 12 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

4,144

Applications

147

Enforcement notices

144

Appeals

2007–2026

Date range

What East Lothian decides

East Lothian has approved 94.4% of the 3,572 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%).

94.4%

Approved, of 3,572 decided

Decision times can't be measured here — East Lothian doesn't publish both a received and a decision date on enough records. The nationwide range across councils that do is 31 to 299 days.

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	3,361	81.1%
Listed building	582	14.0%
Certificate	183	4.4%
Conditions	18	0.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What East Lothian 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 East Lothian actually provides each one, across all 4,144 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 East Lothian 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`	4,144	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	4,144	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	4,144	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	4,144	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,144	100.0%
Status `status`	4,139	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,139	99.9%
Ward `ward`	4,140	99.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,137	99.8%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,024	97.1%
Decision `decision`	3,899	94.1%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,872	93.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	3,625	87.5%
Postcode `postcode`	3,524	85.0%
Agent's email `agent_email`	3,368	81.3%
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,368	81.3%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	3,343	80.7%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,552	37.5%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	23	0.6%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Decision date `decision_date`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

East Lothian'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 East Lothian 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=242&limit=5"

Council id for East Lothian is 242. Full API reference for developers →

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