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Highland planning data

10,112 planning applications from Highland. 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. 5 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

10,112

Applications

Enforcement notices

Appeals

2000–2026

Date range

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What Highland decides

Highland has approved 96.83% of the 3,344 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%).

96.83%

Approved, of 3,344 decided

Median days to a decision

108.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	6,611	65.4%
Full	2,991	29.6%
Listed building	207	2.0%
Certificate	183	1.8%
Advertisement	113	1.1%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Highland 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 Highland actually provides each one, across all 10,112 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 Highland 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`	10,112	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	10,112	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	10,112	100.0%
Status `status`	9,921	98.1%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	9,921	98.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Date received `received_date`	6,561	64.9%
Ward `ward`	5,054	50.0%
Postcode `postcode`	4,973	49.2%
Application type `application_type`	4,813	47.6%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,808	47.5%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,768	47.2%
Agent's email `agent_email`	4,535	44.8%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,432	43.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,356	43.1%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	4,255	42.1%
Decision `decision`	3,975	39.3%
Decision date `decision_date`	3,974	39.3%
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,698	36.6%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	3,582	35.4%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	348	3.4%
Agent's company `agent_company`	46	0.5%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	13	0.1%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	13	0.1%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Highland'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 Highland 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=288&limit=5"

Council id for Highland is 288. Full API reference for developers →

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