Scotland

Western Isles planning data

1,625 planning applications from Western Isles. 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. 18 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

1,625

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,651

Appeals

2013–2026

Date range

What Western Isles decides

Western Isles has approved 98.9% of the 1,186 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%).

98.9%

Approved, of 1,186 decided

Median days to a decision

88.9

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	1,537	94.6%
Listed building	35	2.2%
Tree	25	1.5%
Conditions	16	1.0%
Full	10	0.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Western Isles 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 Western Isles actually provides each one, across all 1,625 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 Western Isles 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`	1,625	100.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	1,625	100.0%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	1,625	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	1,625	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	1,625	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	1,625	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,624	99.9%
Application type `application_type`	1,624	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	1,624	99.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	1,624	99.9%
Ward `ward`	1,624	99.9%
Agent's email `agent_email`	1,606	98.8%
Status `status`	1,601	98.5%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	1,601	98.5%
Decision `decision`	1,553	95.6%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,553	95.6%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	1,544	95.0%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,464	90.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	924	56.9%
Agent's name `agent_name`	917	56.4%
Standardised type `standard_type`	636	39.1%
Postcode `postcode`	493	30.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	4	0.2%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Western Isles'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 Western Isles 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=464&limit=5"

Council id for Western Isles is 464. Full API reference for developers →

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