Planning permission status

Every application in this site's planning dataset (see /planning — decisions from 6 Jan 2011 onward, source: Isle of Man planning open data), classified against the Isle of Man Government's own rule that a granted planning permission lapses 3 years after its decision date if the works haven't substantially begun. Applying now means the application hasn't been decided yet. Live permission means it was granted and, going purely by the decision date, is still inside that 3-year window today. Lapsed means it was granted more than 3 years ago and, on paper, has expired. This is a date calculation only: there is no data here on whether work was ever actually started (which keeps a permission alive regardless of the 3-year clock) or on formal renewals, amendments or resubmissions. Never read "live" as proof a project is under way, or "lapsed" as proof one isn't — it describes the permission's paper validity, not site activity.

Each row's estimated cost of works is inferred automatically from its own description text, using published UK renovation/build-cost guides plus the 18% Isle of Man uplift measured by AtkinsRealis for the Treasury in July 2026 — a rough guide only, excluding VAT and professional fees, not a quote, and not stated by the applicant.

Reading the "lapsed" bucket: only applications decided before 23 Aug 2023 (three years before today) have had time to cross the lapse line — everything decided more recently is still, on paper, live or applying, however old this dataset's own coverage is (currently 15.6 years, back to 6 Jan 2011). Plenty of genuinely lapsed permissions exist further back on the Isle of Man's planning history that simply predate this dataset's own window, not absent from the island.