Planning permission status

Every application in this site's planning dataset (see /planning — decisions from 25 Aug 2021 onward, source: States of Guernsey Planning Websearch), classified against the States of Guernsey'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 a ~25% Channel Islands premium — a rough guide only, 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 5.0 years, back to 25 Aug 2021). Plenty of genuinely lapsed permissions exist further back in Guernsey's planning history that simply predate this dataset's own window, not absent from the island.