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Cairngorms planning data

1,291 planning applications from Cairngorms. 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. 13 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

1,291

Applications

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Enforcement notices

466

Appeals

2018–2026

Date range

What Cairngorms decides

Cairngorms has approved 93.33% of the 60 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%).

93.33%

Approved, of 60 decided

Median days to a decision

22.9

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	1,148	88.9%
Listed building	72	5.6%
Householder	38	2.9%
Advertisement	23	1.8%
Certificate	10	0.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Cairngorms 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 Cairngorms actually provides each one, across all 1,291 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 Cairngorms 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`	1,291	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	1,291	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	1,291	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	1,291	100.0%
Status `status`	1,291	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	1,291	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,290	99.9%
Application type `application_type`	1,290	99.9%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	1,284	99.5%
Case officer `case_officer`	1,284	99.5%
Ward `ward`	1,284	99.5%
Decision `decision`	1,275	98.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,275	98.8%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	1,079	83.6%
Postcode `postcode`	952	73.7%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	439	34.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	426	33.0%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	102	7.9%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	78	6.0%
Agent's company `agent_company`	66	5.1%
Agent's email `agent_email`	49	3.8%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	1	0.1%
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

Cairngorms'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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Get this data

Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Cairngorms last year?" or "what's the planning history of this address?" — no coding, about two minutes to set up. Setup guide →

Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=188&limit=5"

Council id for Cairngorms is 188. Full API reference for developers →

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