{"id":40215,"date":"2026-04-06T18:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/i-couldnt-find-structured-data-on-uk-planning-refusals-so-i-extracted-it-from-pdfs-myself-here-is-the-schema-sample\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:03:59","slug":"i-couldnt-find-structured-data-on-uk-planning-refusals-so-i-extracted-it-from-pdfs-myself-here-is-the-schema-sample","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/i-couldnt-find-structured-data-on-uk-planning-refusals-so-i-extracted-it-from-pdfs-myself-here-is-the-schema-sample\/","title":{"rendered":"I Couldn&#8217;t Find Structured Data On UK Planning Refusals, So I Extracted It From PDFs Myself. Here Is The Schema Sample."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Most UK planning data is trapped in local council PDFs&#8230; so if you&#8217;re trying to build AI or risk models for property, its a nightmare to parse why things actually get rejected.<\/p>\n<p>I spent the last few weeks building an extraction pipeline that pulls out the exact policy breaches, original context &amp; officer notes into a CSV. I also wrote a script to abstract all the PII to just postcodes for GDPR compliance.<\/p>\n<p>I put a 50 row sample of the schema up on Kaggle here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/datasets\/strictschema\/uk-planning-decisions-schema-sample\/\">SAMPLE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If anyone here is working in proptech, data engineering or spatial modeling, I&#8217;d love your feedback on the schema before I pay to run the compute to scale this to to 10,000+ rows&#8230; what columns am I missing?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/a_cold_floor\"> \/u\/a_cold_floor <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1se0o71\/i_couldnt_find_structured_data_on_uk_planning\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1se0o71\/i_couldnt_find_structured_data_on_uk_planning\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-40215 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='40215' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-40215 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-40215 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most UK planning data is trapped in local council PDFs&#8230; so if you&#8217;re trying to build AI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}