Scotland

South Ayrshire planning data

2,858 planning applications from South Ayrshire. 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. 15 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

2,858

Applications

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Enforcement notices

150

Appeals

1988–2026

Date range

What South Ayrshire decides

South Ayrshire has approved 96.79% of the 2,651 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%).

96.79%

Approved, of 2,651 decided

Median days to a decision

68.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	2,227	77.9%
Listed building	238	8.3%
Certificate	178	6.2%
Tree	128	4.5%
Advertisement	70	2.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What South Ayrshire 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 South Ayrshire actually provides each one, across all 2,858 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 South Ayrshire 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`	2,858	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,857	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,858	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,858	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,858	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,856	99.9%
Status `status`	2,856	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,854	99.9%
Agent's email `agent_email`	2,842	99.4%
Ward `ward`	2,834	99.2%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,806	98.2%
Decision `decision`	2,694	94.3%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,694	94.3%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,693	94.2%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,611	91.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	2,535	88.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,433	85.1%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,343	82.0%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	2,251	78.8%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,013	35.4%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	10	0.3%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	10	0.3%
Agent's company `agent_company`	6	0.2%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

South Ayrshire'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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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=402&limit=5"

Council id for South Ayrshire is 402. Full API reference for developers →

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