GIS data is spatial data about the planning policies that apply in a given area. For example, Conservation Areas.
Plan✕ automatically checks this data to tell users and officers what planning policies and constraints apply to their property. In order for your services to do this, your layers need to be published via the Planning Data API.
You can learn more about PlanX’s integration with Planning Data in our Service Specification.
<aside> <img src="/icons/map-pin-alternate_green.svg" alt="/icons/map-pin-alternate_green.svg" width="40px" /> Plan✕ currently pulls GIS data from planning.data.gov.uk, so before you can start using Plan✕ you’ll need to get your layers published on there.
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| Layer | Planning Data “dataset(s)” | How essential is it? |
|---|---|---|
| Conservation Areas | conservation-area | Must have |
| Tree Preservation Zones | tree-preservation-zone if your council publishes polygons | |
| and/or tree if your council publishes points | Must have | |
| Listed Buildings | listed-building-outline with associated listed-building-grade | Must have |
| Article 4 Directions | article-4-direction-area | Must have |
| Tree Preservation Zones metadata | tree-preservation-order | Nice to have |
| Listed Buildings metadata | listed-building | Nice to have |
| Locally Listed Buildings | locally-listed-building | Nice to have |
| Article 4 Directions “rules” | permitted-development-right to link which policies each A4 spatial record removes | Nice to have |
| Central Activities Zone | central-activities-zone | Nice to have |
| Properties with a planning condition removing a permitted development right | ** Planning Data is still developing this specification | Nice to have |
’Must have’– We realise that it takes some time to pull together the full detailed documentation for these layers. To get started, all we need is for the outline boundary to be published on planning.data. It’s ok if some of the more detailed information is added to planning.data later.
<aside> 😟 What if my data isn’t perfect? Don’t worry, the Plan✕ components and services that use this data have pathways for users to report or challenge information if they think its wrong. Users are shown clear warnings that they should apply for a Lawful Development Certificate to check this information, and planning officers will have the opportunity to check it, in the usual way.
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| Layer | Planning Data “dataset(s)” |
|---|---|
| Ancient Semi-natural woodland (ASNW) | ancient-woodland |
| Areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) | area-of-outstanding-natural-beauty |
| National Parks | national-park |
| Broads | national-park > Broads entity |
| Scheduled monuments | scheduled-monument |
| Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) | site-of-special-scientific-interest |
| Special Area of Conservation (SAC) | special-area-of-conservation |
| World Heritage Sites | world-heritage-site and world-heritage-site-buffer-zone |
| Flood Zones - Risk Levels 2 & 3 | flood-risk-zone |
| Historic Parks and Gardens | historic-parks-and-gardens |
| Special Protection Areas (SPA) | special-protection-area |
| Land Registry Index Polygons | title-boundary |
| Green Belts | green-belt |
| Ramsar sites | ramsar |
| Brownfield sites | brownfield-site and brownfield-land |
| Classified roads | Sourced from Ordnance Survey MasterMap Highways (not planning.data.gov.uk) |
If your council already has these available, please reach out!
| Layer | Current Source | Anticipated source | Reason for inclusion | Proposed data value assigned to property.constraints.planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Safeguarded land | Planning Data | Relevant to GPDO Part 14 Classes H & I (install wind turbines) | safeguardedLand | |
| Safety hazard area | Planning Data | Relevant to multiple GPDO classes | safetyHazardArea | |
| Explosives and ordnance storage | Planning Data | Relevant to multiple GPDO classes | explosivesOrdnanceStorage | |
| Aerodrome | Planning Data | Relevant to multiple GPDO classes | aerodrome | |
| Local flood data | Planning Data | Currently put to applicants in planning permission forms | flood.local | |
| Coastal storm surge flood risk area | Planning Data | Currently put to applicants in planning permission forms | flood.stormSurge | |
| Flood risk zone 3b | Planning Data | Currently put to applicants in planning permission forms | flood.zoneThree.b | |
| Flood storage area | Planning Data | Currently put to applicants in planning permission forms | flood.storageArea | |
| Main river | Planning Data | Currently put to applicants in planning permission forms | watercourse.mainRiver | |
| Other watercourse | Planning Data | Currently put to applicants in planning permission forms | watercourse.other | |
| Section 41 Habitat of principal importance | https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/4b6ddab7-6c0f-4407-946e-d6499f19fcde/priority-habitats-inventory-england | Planning Data | Currently put to applicants in planning permission forms | nature.priorityHabitat |
| Regionally important geological and geomorphological site (RIGS) | Planning Data | Currently put to applicants in planning permission forms | nature.RIGS | |
| Veteran tree | Planning Data | Currently put to applicants in planning permission forms if considered to be ‘other biodiversity feature’ | nature.veteranTree | |
| Local Biodiversity Action Plan priority habitat | Planning Data | Currently put to applicants in planning permission forms if considered to be ‘other biodiversity feature’ | nature.localPriorityHabitat | |
| Areas of critical drainage problems | Planning Data | Currently a flood risk consideration to be checked as part of the planning permission flooding section | flood.criticalDrainage | |
| Historic landfill site | Planning Data | Informs whether Environment Agency consultation is required for a planning application | landfill.historic | |
| Authorised landfill site | Planning Data | Informs whether Environment Agency consultation is required for a planning application | landfill.authorised | |
| Principle aquifer | Planning Data | Informs whether Environment Agency consultation is required for a planning application | aquifer.principle | |
| Secondary aquifer | Planning Data | Informs whether Environment Agency consultation is required for a planning application | aquifer.secondary | |
| Source protection zone | Planning Data | Informs whether Environment Agency consultation is required for a planning application | sourceProtectionZone | |
| Coastal change management area | Planning Data | Informs whether Environment Agency consultation is required for a planning application | coastalChangeManagementArea | |
| Potential Special Protection Area (SPA) | https://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx | Planning Data | Used to determine what BNG metric tool can be used | nature.SPA.potential |
| Possible Special Area of Conservation (SAC) | https://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx | Planning Data | Used to determine what BNG metric tool can be used | nature.SAC.possible |
| Proposed Ramsar site | https://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx | Planning Data | Used to determine what BNG metric tool can be used | nature.ramsarSite.proposed |
| Local nature reserve | Planning Data | Used to determine what BNG metric tool can be used | nature.localNatureReserve | |
| Local wildlife site | Planning Data | Used to determine what BNG metric tool can be used | nature.localWildlifeSite | |
| Local geological site | Planning Data | Used to determine what BNG metric tool can be used | nature.localGeologicalSite | |
| Heritage coast | Planning Data | Used to determine what BNG metric tool can be used | heritageCoast | |
| Irreplaceable habitat | Planning data | Used to determine what BNG metric tool can be used | nature.irreplaceableHabitat | |
| Community asset (registered) | Planning Data | communityAsset.registered | ||
| Community asset (nominated) | Planning Data | communityAsset.nominated | ||
| Historic underground watercourse | local - Camden | Planning Data | Used to determine what additional documents are required with planning applications in Camden | historicUndergroundWatercourse |
| Area of archaeological potential | local - Camden | Planning Data | Used to determine what additional documents are required with planning applications in Camden | areasOfArchaeologicalPotential |
| Archaeological priority area | local - Lambeth | Planning Data | Used to determine what additional documents are required with planning applications in Lambeth | archaeologicalPriorityArea |
| Designed space or landscape on the local landscape register | local - Lambeth | Planning Data | Used to determine what additional documents are required with planning applications in Lambeth | localLandscapeRegister |
<aside> <img src="/icons/arrow-right-basic_blue.svg" alt="/icons/arrow-right-basic_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Go to planning.data.gov.uk
Let us know on Slack when you’re done!
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