Scotland

Orkney planning data

1,485 planning applications from Orkney. 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. 11 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

1,485

Applications

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Enforcement notices

107

Appeals

2022–2026

Date range

What Orkney decides

Orkney has approved 94.17% of the 1,063 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%).

94.17%

Approved, of 1,063 decided

Median days to a decision

121.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	973	65.5%
Householder	220	14.8%
Listed building	115	7.7%
Amendment	85	5.7%
Certificate	40	2.7%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Orkney 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 Orkney actually provides each one, across all 1,485 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 Orkney 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`	1,485	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	1,485	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	1,485	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	1,485	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	1,480	99.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,474	99.3%
Ward `ward`	1,444	97.2%
Case officer `case_officer`	1,419	95.6%
Decision `decision`	1,357	91.4%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,357	91.4%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	1,342	90.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Status `status`	1,319	88.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	1,319	88.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,310	88.2%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	1,129	76.0%
Postcode `postcode`	1,124	75.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,005	67.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	993	66.9%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	968	65.2%
Agent's company `agent_company`	620	41.8%
Standardised type `standard_type`	525	35.4%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	4	0.3%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	4	0.3%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Orkney'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 Orkney 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=368&limit=5"

Council id for Orkney is 368. Full API reference for developers →

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