Wedding Venue Licence Applications from Leeds City Council

Leeds City Council provides a dataset of licence applications for venues seeking approval to host weddings. The data is published in XML format under the Open Government Licence (OGL-UK-3.0). Its cross-platform presence on UK and EU open data portals indicates its status as a public government record.

Use Cases

• Tracking venue licensing trends based on application records.
• Mapping approved wedding venues based on location data suggested by the 'venue' tag.
• Analyzing government processing of permits based on the 'licence' and 'permit' tags.

Strengths

• Published under a permissive Open Government Licence (OGL-UK-3.0).
• Sourced directly from a municipal authority (Leeds City Council).
• Available on multiple government open data platforms, suggesting reliability.

Limitations

• Column names and data schema are not described in the provided metadata.
• Sources conflict on the last update date, listing both 2018 and a future date of 2026.
• The dataset size and row count are unknown, limiting assessment of its scale.

Provenance

Source

Leeds City Council

Collection Method

Likely collected through official venue licensing application processes.

Freshness

Last updated: 2026-07-08 (from uk_data platform). Note: A conflicting date of 2018-08-14 is listed on eu_open_data.

Geography

Likely covers the jurisdiction of Leeds City Council, United Kingdom.