Scotland
4,532 planning applications from Scottish Borders. 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.
We don't yet have Scottish Borders's full history back to 2023 — it's loading now. The figures below cover what we already hold, so treat them as a minimum rather than the full picture. Alerts for new day-to-day changes start once loading is complete.
Scottish Borders has approved 93.29% of the 3,428 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%).
Decision times can't be measured here — Scottish Borders doesn't publish both a received and a decision date on enough records. The nationwide range across councils that do is 31 to 299 days.
The mix of application types Scottish Borders handles — useful for telling whether your kind of application is routine here or unusual.
| Application type | Applications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Full | 2,589 | 57.1% |
| Other | 851 | 18.8% |
| Listed building | 495 | 10.9% |
| Tree | 368 | 8.1% |
| Certificate | 227 | 5.0% |
How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →
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 Scottish Borders actually provides each one, across all 4,532 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 Scottish Borders actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →
| Information | Records with it | Coverage | |
|---|---|---|---|
Addressaddress |
4,532 | 100.0% | |
Description of the worksdescription |
4,532 | 100.0% | |
Date receivedreceived_date |
4,532 | 100.0% | |
Council referencereference |
4,532 | 100.0% | |
Alternative referencealternative_reference |
4,527 | 99.9% | |
Wardward |
4,529 | 99.9% | |
Applicant's nameapplicant_name |
4,525 | 99.8% | |
Application typeapplication_type |
4,525 | 99.8% | |
Case officercase_officer |
4,525 | 99.8% | |
Who decided it (officer or committee)decision_level |
4,525 | 99.8% | |
Appeal decisionappeal_decision |
4,463 | 98.5% | |
Statusstatus |
4,191 | 92.5% | |
Status (standardised wording)status_normalized |
4,191 | 92.5% |
| Information | Records with it | Coverage | |
|---|---|---|---|
Decisiondecision |
3,684 | 81.3% | |
Decision (standardised wording)decision_normalized |
3,613 | 79.7% | |
Agent's emailagent_email |
3,472 | 76.6% | |
Agent's companyagent_company |
3,461 | 76.4% | |
Agent's nameagent_name |
3,461 | 76.4% | |
Agent's phoneagent_phone |
3,335 | 73.6% | |
Postcodepostcode |
3,065 | 67.6% |
| Information | Records with it | Coverage | |
|---|---|---|---|
Standardised typestandard_type |
207 | 4.6% | |
Appeal decision (standardised wording)appeal_decision_normalized |
69 | 1.5% | |
Decision datedecision_date |
0 | 0.0% | |
Type of developmentdevelopment_type |
0 | 0.0% | |
Officer's recommendationofficer_recommendation |
0 | 0.0% |
Scottish Borders'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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Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Scottish Borders last year?" or "what's the planning history of this address?" — no coding, about two minutes to set up. Setup guide →
curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \ "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=392&limit=5"
Council id for Scottish Borders is 392.
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