Scottish Public Notices via API for Planning, Traffic, and Licensing
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Description
TellMeScotland provides a REST API for accessing structured public notices issued by local authorities across Scotland. The service likely contains notices for planning applications, traffic restrictions, licensing, and general announcements, delivered in JSON or XML format. Data is collected and published by the Government Digital Service via the eu_open_data platform.
Use Cases
Monitor regional planning application trends based on notice type and location.
Analyze roadwork and traffic restriction patterns for logistics or urban planning.
Build alert systems for specific notice categories like licensing or councillor surgeries.
Conduct longitudinal studies on local government activity using archived notices.
Strengths
Data covers multiple notice types explicitly mentioned: Planning, Traffic, General, Licensing, and Councillor Surgeries.
API supports both bulk and individual queries, offering flexible data access.
Service includes a map-based interface for geographic selection of notices.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Access requires a registered account with specific authorizations, creating a barrier to immediate use.
Provenance
Source
Government Digital Service
Collection Method
Aggregated from local authorities across Scotland via the TellMeScotland portal.
Time Range
null
Freshness
Update frequency is unknown; freshness unverified.
Geography
Scotland
Direct API access requires a TellMeScotland account with REST read-only permissions, obtained by contacting [email protected].