North East Scotland

Aberdeen planning data

4,351 planning applications from Aberdeen. 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.

4,351

Applications

Enforcement notices

857

Appeals

2017–2026

Date range

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What Aberdeen decides

Aberdeen has approved 92.94% of the 3,726 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%).

92.94%

Approved, of 3,726 decided

Median days to a decision

34.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	2,901	66.7%
Tree	582	13.4%
Listed building	422	9.7%
Advertisement	297	6.8%
Certificate	136	3.1%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Aberdeen 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 Aberdeen actually provides each one, across all 4,351 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 Aberdeen 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`	4,351	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	4,351	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,351	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	4,345	99.9%
Status `status`	4,338	99.7%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,336	99.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	4,334	99.6%
Ward `ward`	4,331	99.5%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,283	98.4%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,231	97.2%
Decision `decision`	4,095	94.1%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,095	94.1%
Postcode `postcode`	4,067	93.5%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,059	93.3%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	3,985	91.6%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,473	79.8%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	3,301	75.9%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,166	72.8%
Standardised type `standard_type`	778	17.9%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	30	0.7%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	30	0.7%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Aberdeen'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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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=145&limit=5"

Council id for Aberdeen is 145. Full API reference for developers →

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