Planner App Data Sources

Data Sources And Responsible Use

The platform uses public-sector and open datasets, transformed by MapHorizon into evidence layers, scores and visual indicators. Data should be treated as decision-support evidence, not as legal, procurement or planning advice.

Planner evidence layers

The Planner App uses the following source families in its evidence layers and local opportunity indicators.

  • Companies House Community Interest Company data
  • Companies House with postcode enrichment
  • DWP Personal Independence Payment statistics
  • DWP Universal Credit Claimant Count
  • Defra / air quality modelled NO₂ data
  • Department for Education provider datasets
  • DfE Get Information About Schools
  • DfT Journey Time Statistics
  • DfT Journey Time Statistics and DfE education locations
  • English Indices of Deprivation — Crime Domain
  • English Indices of Deprivation — Education, Skills and Training Domain
  • English Indices of Deprivation — Employment Domain
  • English Indices of Deprivation — Geographical Barriers Sub-domain
  • English Indices of Deprivation — Health Deprivation and Disability Domain
  • English Indices of Deprivation — Income Domain
  • English Indices of Deprivation — Living Environment Domain
  • Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index
  • Local Skills Improvement Plans
  • Local authority AQMA datasets
  • NHS GP locations and DfT Journey Time Statistics
  • Natural England / local planning constraint datasets
  • ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings
  • ONS Business Register and Employment Survey
  • ONS Census 2021
  • ONS loneliness and wellbeing indicators
  • ONS wellbeing and community indicators
  • Office for Health Improvement and Disparities obesity indicators
  • Police recorded crime data
  • Small Area Mental Health Index

Map and postcode context

  • Postcode and statistical geography lookupUK postcode, LSOA, LAD and boundary-derived spatial references used to locate evidence around the entered postcode.
  • OpenStreetMap / CARTO / MapLibre map backgroundBasemap and map rendering context used for visual navigation only.