UK Planning & Land Market Data

Planning Application Trends

Local planning authorities publish weekly lists of new and determined applications. Reviewing these lists over time reveals patterns — which types of development are being approved or refused, which wards are seeing the most activity, and how long applications are typically taking to determine. Maplify's Planning Application Finder tool lets you search these lists directly for any area, giving an up-to-date view of development activity nearby.

Land Supply & Local Plan Allocations

Local Plans set out five-year housing land supply targets and specific site allocations for each authority. An authority failing to demonstrate a five-year supply can find itself more exposed to speculative development applications on unallocated sites. Reviewing an authority's adopted and emerging Local Plan is one of the fastest ways to understand where future development is likely to be directed, and where policy resistance is likely to be strongest.

Brownfield Land Registers

Councils maintain statutory registers of brownfield land considered suitable for housing, updated at least annually. These registers are a useful, publicly available starting point for site sourcing, and are reflected directly in Maplify's Brownfield Land layer.

Using This Data Alongside Maplify

Market and policy data tells you where development activity is concentrated and where future supply is likely to come from. Maplify's constraint layers then tell you whether a specific site within that area is actually developable, and what restrictions apply. Used together, the two give a much fuller picture than either alone.

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