Scotland

Moray planning data

6,249 planning applications from Moray. 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. 11 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

6,249

Applications

Enforcement notices

654

Appeals

1974–2026

Date range

What Moray decides

Moray has approved 94.38% of the 5,536 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%).

94.38%

Approved, of 5,536 decided

Median days to a decision

120.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	4,032	64.5%
Full	1,330	21.3%
Listed building	621	9.9%
Advertisement	185	3.0%
Certificate	81	1.3%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Moray 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 Moray actually provides each one, across all 6,249 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 Moray 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`	6,248	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	6,249	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	6,249	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	6,249	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	6,249	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	6,245	99.9%
Ward `ward`	6,204	99.3%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	6,151	98.4%
Decision `decision`	6,024	96.4%
Decision date `decision_date`	6,024	96.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	6,003	96.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Status `status`	5,585	89.4%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,585	89.4%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,962	79.4%
Agent's email `agent_email`	4,428	70.9%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	4,427	70.8%
Postcode `postcode`	4,208	67.3%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,050	64.8%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	3,440	55.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	816	13.1%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	228	3.6%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	68	1.1%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	68	1.1%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Moray'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=333&limit=5"

Council id for Moray is 333. Full API reference for developers →

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