Scotland

Falkirk planning data

2,258 planning applications from Falkirk. 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. 15 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

2,258

Applications

Enforcement notices

2,256

Appeals

1994–2026

Date range

What Falkirk decides

Falkirk has approved 95.1% of the 1,551 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%).

95.1%

Approved, of 1,551 decided

Median days to a decision

101

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	1,638	72.5%
Certificate	160	7.1%
Conditions	157	7.0%
Listed building	127	5.6%
Amendment	98	4.3%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Falkirk 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 Falkirk actually provides each one, across all 2,258 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 Falkirk 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`	2,258	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,258	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,258	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,258	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,256	99.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,254	99.8%
Ward `ward`	2,251	99.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,247	99.5%
Agent's email `agent_email`	2,233	98.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,215	98.1%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,158	95.6%
Status `status`	2,053	90.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,053	90.9%
Decision `decision`	2,035	90.1%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,035	90.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,026	89.7%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	1,878	83.2%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,867	82.7%
Postcode `postcode`	1,727	76.5%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,671	74.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	835	37.0%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	12	0.5%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	12	0.5%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Falkirk'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

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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=258&limit=5"

Council id for Falkirk is 258. Full API reference for developers →

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