UK Local Planning Authorities: Names and Codes as of May 2025

A list of local planning authorities in the United Kingdom as of 1st May 2025. The dataset includes names, codes, and a co-terminous status indicator for each authority. It is provided by the Office for National Statistics and was last updated on the platform in July 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping planning authority jurisdictions based on the listed names and codes.
• Joining planning data with other UK administrative datasets using the provided LPA codes.
• Analyzing the alignment of planning and local authority district boundaries based on the co-terminous field.

Strengths

• Provides a specific snapshot of authorities as of 1st May 2025.
• Includes a co-terminous field indicating boundary alignment with local authority districts.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoJSON and KML.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Freshness should be verified as the data snapshot is from May 2025.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

Snapshot as of 2025-05-01

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-09 07:01:13.910602; snapshot is from 2025-05-01.

Geography

United Kingdom