Buildings Building Permits

Planning Applications

by Local Government Association (LGA)

A CSV template for publishing the details of construction permit applications to English local councils.

Assessment

Open License Yes
Transferable to Other Jurisdictions No

Many fields require URIs that are specific to UK legal code
Stakeholder Participation Yes

The Local Government Association consists of local government officials who collaborate to develop best practices for local authorities, the would-be stakeholders.
Consensus-Based Governance No

Although schemas and documentation are held on GitHub, changes can only be decided by the LGA
Extensions No

The LGA provides a CSV template, and extensions are not supported by the LGA data portal
Human Readable Yes

CSV template has readable headers
Machine Readable Yes

CSV format required
Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data No

Dates included in the applications are noted, as well as the date that the data was extracted from its source database, but there is no requirement for consistent publication
Metadata No

Development stage: Completed
License: Data providers are encouraged to publish under the Open Government Licence. While the LGA maintains a copyright to the documentation, the standard does not appear to be licensed
Level of use: 376 District and County Councils are members of the LGA
Applications: LG Inform Plus API. The LGA website also has a CSV data validator for all of their published schema
About the publisher: The Local Government Association represents the interests of English and Welsh municipal councils in national government. The LGA also promotes communication between local government authorities and develops best practices. LGA standards have been developed in response to the UK's Local Government Transparency Code, which encourages the publication of government data in standardized machine-readable formats.
Updated by publisher: February 15, 2015
Added to directory: August 20, 2017