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West Lothian planning data

3,417 planning applications from West 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. 15 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

3,417

Applications

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Enforcement notices

3,543

Appeals

1992–2026

Date range

What West Lothian decides

West Lothian has approved 86.99% of the 2,751 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 below the middle of the pack (89.18%).

86.99%

Approved, of 2,751 decided

Median days to a decision

95.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	1,525	44.6%
Householder	954	27.9%
Certificate	348	10.2%
Advertisement	206	6.0%
Tree	199	5.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What West 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 West Lothian actually provides each one, across all 3,417 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 West 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`	3,417	100.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	3,417	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	3,417	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	3,417	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	3,417	100.0%
Ward `ward`	3,417	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	3,410	99.8%
Application type `application_type`	3,411	99.8%
Case officer `case_officer`	3,411	99.8%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	3,411	99.8%
Status `status`	3,362	98.4%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	3,362	98.4%
Decision `decision`	3,202	93.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	3,202	93.7%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,087	90.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	3,033	88.8%
Agent's company `agent_company`	2,450	71.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,449	71.7%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,221	35.7%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	358	10.5%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	77	2.3%
Agent's email `agent_email`	16	0.5%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

West 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

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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=466&limit=5"

Council id for West Lothian is 466. Full API reference for developers →

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