UK Planning Appeals: Inspectorate Decisions by RawTrader

Track UK planning appeal decisions in England from the official Planning Inspectorate Casework Database. See which appeals were allowed or dismissed by council (LPA), postcode, development type, number of dwellings and green belt, and get each council's appeal allowed rate and decision time. Built for developers, land promoters, planning consultants, planning lawyers and property researchers. Official open data under the Open Government Licence. No login, no API key, no portal scraping.

Output	What you get
⚖️ Decision rows	Case reference, casework type, council, council application reference, dates, decision, appeal outcome, procedure, development type, site address and postcode, dwellings, floor space, green belt and heritage flags, case page link
📊 Allowed rate summary	Per council (or council and development type): decisions, allowed, split, dismissed, allowed rate %, median weeks from valid to decision
🔔 New decisions monitor	Only Planning Inspectorate decisions not seen in your earlier runs, for a weekly or monthly schedule

What it does

• Reads the latest Planning Inspectorate Casework Database spreadsheet from GOV.UK (5 rolling years of decided appeals for England, updated monthly), and optionally the older 5 to 10 year file
• Filters by council name, postcode prefix, casework type (planning, householder, enforcement, listed building, lawful development certificate, trees and more), development type, appeal outcome, decision date, minimum dwellings, green belt, site address words and council application reference
• Builds an allowed rate summary by council, development type or casework type
• Remembers what it has already sent, so a scheduled run gives you only new decisions
• Export to CSV, Excel or JSON, or call it from the API, Make, Zapier or n8n

Use cases

• Planning consultants and agents: appeal success rates by council and casework type before advising a client to appeal.
• Developers, land promoters and housebuilders: allowed appeals for housing sites, green belt cases and major dwellings schemes, council by council.
• Planning lawyers and barristers: recent Planning Inspectorate decisions for a council or an issue, with links to the case page.
• Property researchers and journalists: local planning appeal outcomes and trends with official numbers.
• Monitoring: a weekly or monthly alert of new appeal decisions in your patch, on a schedule.
• Pair it with our UK Planning Applications actor: use the council application reference to see whether a refused application went to appeal.

Input

Field	Example	Notes
Output	both	decisions, summary, both or newDecisions
Councils	["Sevenoaks", "Tandridge"]	Part of the council name. Empty = all of England
Postcode prefixes	["CR3", "TN13"]	From the site address
Casework types	["Planning Appeal"]	Part of the type name
Development types	["dwellings"]	Matches Major dwellings and Minor Dwellings
Outcomes	["allowed"]	allowed, split, dismissed, quashed, withdrawn_or_invalid, other
Decided from / to	2026-07-01 / 2026-09-30	Empty = the last 90 days
Minimum dwellings	10	Where known
Green belt only	true
Council application references	["TA/2025/771"]	Find the appeal for a planning application
Include agent name / inspector name	false	Off by default. Appellant names are never output
Max decision rows	1000	0 = no cap

Example: housing appeals in two Surrey and Kent councils, July to September 2026

{ "lpaNames": ["Sevenoaks", "Tandridge"], "developmentTypes": ["dwellings"], "decidedFrom": "2026-07-01", "decidedTo": "2026-09-30", "mode": "both" }

Example: allowed rate for every council in England over the last year

{ "mode": "summary", "days": 365, "summaryGroupBy": "lpa" }

Example: monthly alert of new allowed green belt housing appeals

{ "mode": "newDecisions", "outcomes": ["allowed"], "greenBeltOnly": true, "developmentTypes": ["dwellings"], "monitorName": "green-belt-wins" }

Output

Real rows from a test run on 25 October 2026 with the first example input (16 decisions, 2 summary rows).

Decision row:

{
  "recordType": "decision",
  "caseReference": "6006497",
  "caseworkType": "Planning Appeal",
  "applicationType": "Planning Appeals - Outline",
  "lpaName": "Tandridge District Council",
  "lpaApplicationReference": "TA/2025/771",
  "lpaDecisionDate": "2025-11-05",
  "validDate": "2026-03-16",
  "decisionDate": "2026-09-25",
  "decision": "Allowed",
  "outcome": "allowed",
  "procedure": "Inquiry",
  "developmentType": "Major dwellings",
  "siteAddress": "Land at Mount Avenue, Chaldon, CR3 5BB",
  "postcode": "CR3 5BB",
  "floorSpaceSqm": 14500,
  "numberOfResidences": 30,
  "greenBelt": true,
  "affectsListedBuildingSetting": true,
  "costsApplied": true,
  "caseUrl": null
}

Allowed rate summary row:

{
  "recordType": "summary",
  "groupBy": "lpa",
  "lpaName": "Tandridge District Council",
  "decisions": 12,
  "allowed": 3,
  "split": 0,
  "dismissed": 9,
  "allowedRatePct": 25,
  "medianWeeksValidToDecision": 18.3,
  "decidedFrom": "2026-07-01",
  "decidedTo": "2026-09-30"
}

A RUN_SUMMARY record in the default key value store has the source update date, the latest decision date in the data, the number of cases scanned and matched, and the charged events.

Pricing (pay per event)

You pay per row returned. There is no monthly rental.

Event	When it is charged	Price
Decision row	Each appeal decision row returned (Decision rows or Both mode)	$0.002
Summary row	Each allowed rate summary row (per council, development type or casework type)	$0.01
New decision	Each appeal decision not seen in earlier runs (New decisions mode)	$0.008

Examples:

• The housing example above (16 decisions and 2 summary rows) costs $0.052.
• 1,000 decision rows cost $2.00.
• An allowed rate summary for 100 councils costs $1.00.
• The first New decisions run only saves a baseline and outputs nothing, so it charges no events. Later runs charge only for new decisions.

Set Max decision rows or a maximum cost per run to cap your spend.

API

Run it from any language with the Apify API. Copy the ready made call from the API tab, for example the run-sync-get-dataset-items endpoint with this body:

{ "lpaNames": ["Cornwall"], "mode": "summary", "days": 365 }

Is it legal?

Yes. The Casework Database is published by the Planning Inspectorate on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The actor downloads the official spreadsheet only, found through the public GOV.UK Content API, once per run. It does not crawl the Appeals Casework Portal; case page links are given for you to open.

Personal data: the source lists appellant names. This actor never outputs appellant names. Agent and inspector names are off by default and only added if you switch them on. Site addresses are published by the Planning Inspectorate so that appeals can be found; use them for planning purposes and follow UK GDPR. The Planning Inspectorate notes that outcome rates per inspector are not a fair measure of an inspector's work.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? The Planning Inspectorate updates the Casework Database about once a month. The October 2026 file has decisions up to 30 September 2026. Appeals still in progress, withdrawn or turned away are not included.

Does it cover Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland? No. The Casework Database covers England. Welsh appeals are handled by PEDW.

Does it output appellant names? No, never. Agent and inspector names are off by default and only added if you switch them on.

Why do some rows have no case page link? Cases from the newer Back Office system (references starting with 6) are not on the old Appeals Casework Portal, so the link is left empty. Search the reference on GOV.UK instead.

What counts as allowed? Allowed, allowed with conditions and planning permission granted. Split decisions are counted separately and included in the allowed rate.

Can I get older appeals? Yes. Switch on Include older cases for decisions from 5 to 10 years ago. That run reads a second file and needs about 2 GB of memory.

How much does a run cost? See the Pricing table above. You are charged per row returned, so a narrow filter costs very little.

Is this legal or investment advice? No. It is official data, provided as is, for research. Appeal outcomes depend on the facts of each case; take professional advice before acting.

Data source

Planning Inspectorate Casework Database, published on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/planning-inspectorate-appeals-database

Contains public sector information from the Planning Inspectorate licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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