England Planning Constraints Evidence Pack

Screen 1–25 caller-supplied England coordinates or UPRNs against selected official planning and land designations, then receive one compact, source-linked evidence record per location.

This Actor uses the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government's public Planning Data API. It does not scrape council portals, collect applicant/owner data, download planning documents or retain a separate property database.

What it checks

• conservation areas
• listed buildings
• Article 4 direction areas
• tree preservation zones
• green belt
• flood risk zones
• scheduled monuments
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest
• ancient woodland
• heritage at risk

Choose any subset of those fixed layers. Each location must have your own unique label and either WGS84 latitude/longitude or a numeric UPRN. The hard limit is 25 locations per run.

Example input

{
  "locations": [
    {
      "label": "Trafalgar Square sample",
      "latitude": 51.5074,
      "longitude": -0.1278
    },
    {
      "label": "UPRN sample",
      "uprn": "10008315764"
    }
  ],
  "datasets": [
    "conservation-area",
    "listed-building",
    "article-4-direction-area",
    "flood-risk-zone"
  ]
}

Output

Every successfully screened location creates one Dataset item with:

• your label and exact query selector;
• MATCHES_FOUND or NO_MATCHES;
• total and per-dataset match counts;
• compact evidence rows with the official entity ID, dataset, name, reference, dates, quality, documentation URL and stable Planning Data entity page;
• screening time, source, licence attribution and the coverage warning.

Failed source requests are recorded in OUTPUT, create no Dataset item and are not charged. Large source geometries are deliberately excluded; this is a compact evidence pack, not a GIS export.

Important coverage boundary

Planning Data is a beta service. Coverage is incomplete and varies by dataset and area. No match does not mean no planning constraint exists. Records can change and should be verified at the linked official source.

This Actor provides research evidence only. It does not determine development rights, planning permission, legal status, insurability, valuation or whether a transaction should proceed. It is not planning, legal, surveying, conveyancing, insurance or other professional advice.

Data and licence

The source service is operated by MHCLG. Output contains public-sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 unless an individual dataset states otherwise. Source and entity links are carried into the output. Do not imply that MHCLG, Planning Data or any source authority endorses this Actor.

Your labels and locations are processed only for the run and written to your own Apify Dataset/key-value storage. The Actor does not enrich locations with people, owners or applicants and does not create a publisher-side location database.

Pricing and limits

Each successfully completed location record costs USD 0.01 through the location-screened event. Apify platform usage is paid separately by the caller. Source failures are uncharged. Apify maximum-total-charge limits are respected; when the limit is reached, the Actor stops with any completed evidence already saved.

Reliability

• fixed official HTTPS endpoint; no proxy or browser
• 10-second request timeout
• two bounded retries for rate limits and transient server errors
• 250 ms delay between completed locations
• source schema validation and 100-entity response cap
• no arbitrary URLs, raw API filters or unbounded pagination