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Midlothian planning data

2,246 planning applications from Midlothian. 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.

2,246

Applications

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Enforcement notices

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

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What Midlothian decides

Midlothian has approved 89.91% of the 218 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%).

89.91%

Approved, of 218 decided

Median days to a decision

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	2,117	94.3%
Tree	61	2.7%
Listed building	38	1.7%
Certificate	20	0.9%
Advertisement	9	0.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Midlothian 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 Midlothian actually provides each one, across all 2,246 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 Midlothian 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`	2,246	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,246	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,246	100.0%
Status `status`	2,217	98.7%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,217	98.7%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Ward `ward`	1,732	77.1%
Postcode `postcode`	1,695	75.5%
Date received `received_date`	422	18.8%
Application type `application_type`	381	17.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	368	16.4%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	356	15.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	328	14.6%
Agent's name `agent_name`	306	13.6%
Agent's company `agent_company`	290	12.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	267	11.9%
Decision `decision`	264	11.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	246	11.0%
Agent's email `agent_email`	228	10.2%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	180	8.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	176	7.8%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	168	7.5%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	1	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	1	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Midlothian'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

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Midlothian 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=327&limit=5"

Council id for Midlothian is 327. Full API reference for developers →

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