Scotland

Fife planning data

12,020 planning applications from Fife. 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. 14 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

12,020

Applications

322

Enforcement notices

123

Appeals

1999–2026

Date range

What Fife decides

Fife has approved 96.57% of the 9,535 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%).

96.57%

Approved, of 9,535 decided

Median days to a decision

72.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	5,006	41.6%
Other	3,517	29.3%
Listed building	1,234	10.3%
Certificate	920	7.7%
Tree	539	4.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Fife 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 Fife actually provides each one, across all 12,020 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 Fife 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`	12,020	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	12,020	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	12,020	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	12,020	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	12,008	99.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	11,988	99.7%
Status `status`	11,982	99.7%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	11,982	99.7%
Ward `ward`	11,890	98.9%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	11,868	98.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	11,632	96.8%
Decision `decision`	11,407	94.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	11,407	94.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	11,176	93.0%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	9,954	82.8%
Agent's name `agent_name`	9,526	79.3%
Postcode `postcode`	8,268	68.8%
Agent's company `agent_company`	7,447	62.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	3,812	31.7%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's email `agent_email`	44	0.4%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Fife'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 Fife 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=262&limit=5"

Council id for Fife is 262. Full API reference for developers →

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