January 2011 to December 2024 is the coverage for this dataset of planning applications in London referable to the Mayor. The Greater London Authority manually compiled information on residential units, affordable housing, building height, and Mayoral decisions for each application. The data was last updated in January 2026 to include records through the end of 2024.
Use Cases
- Analyzing trends in affordable housing provision based on recorded provision data.
- Modeling the relationship between building height and Mayoral decision outcomes based on the number of storeys.
- Tracking the volume and scale of residential development over time based on the count of residential units.
Strengths
- Covers a 14-year period from January 2011 to December 2024.
- Includes key planning metrics such as residential unit counts and affordable housing provision.
- Explicitly notes data verification efforts were undertaken to reduce inaccuracies.
Limitations
- Data was compiled manually and may be subject to human error.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Greater London Authority
- Collection Method
- Manually compiled from planning applications referable to the Mayor.
- Time Range
- 2011-01-01 to 2024-12-31
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-25 12:03:35.364357; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- London, United Kingdom