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South Lanarkshire planning data

4,759 planning applications from South Lanarkshire. 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. 16 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

4,759

Applications

Enforcement notices

412

Appeals

2005–2026

Date range

What South Lanarkshire decides

South Lanarkshire has approved 93.06% of the 4,006 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%).

93.06%

Approved, of 4,006 decided

Median days to a decision

98.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	2,185	45.9%
Householder	1,706	35.8%
Certificate	293	6.2%
Amendment	189	4.0%
Listed building	155	3.3%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What South Lanarkshire 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 South Lanarkshire actually provides each one, across all 4,759 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 South Lanarkshire 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`	4,759	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	4,758	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	4,758	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	4,759	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,759	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,755	99.9%
Status `status`	4,754	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,754	99.9%
Ward `ward`	4,755	99.9%
Agent's email `agent_email`	4,668	98.1%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,670	98.1%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,552	95.7%
Decision `decision`	4,440	93.3%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,441	93.3%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,362	91.7%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	4,293	90.2%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	4,132	86.8%
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,999	84.0%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	3,855	81.0%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,266	68.6%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,930	40.6%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	43	0.9%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	43	0.9%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

South Lanarkshire'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=409&limit=5"

Council id for South Lanarkshire is 409. Full API reference for developers →

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