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UK Planning Applications Scraper

Scrape planning applications from 400+ UK council portals. Get reference numbers, addresses, proposals, decisions, dates, applicants, agents and more. Covers Idox, Northgate and other portal systems.

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You can access the UK Planning Applications Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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UK Planning Applications Scraper - Council Data OpenAPI definition

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You can download the OpenAPI definitions for UK Planning Applications Scraper from the options below:

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