Planning applications in Ashton Keynes, live on your parish council website
Below is a live feed of the 25 planning applications in Ashton Keynes from the last 12 months, taken from the official register. Plota provides it free to parish, town and community councils - adjust it if you like, copy a short snippet of code into your website, and it keeps itself up to date from then on. No account needed.
Meets WCAG 2.2 AA, the accessibility standard for public sector websites. Accessibility Conformance Report (VPAT®, PDF)
Is it safe to add to our website?
It is a page within a page
The feed is an iframe: a small window that shows a Plota page inside your own. YouTube videos, Google Maps and booking calendars are added to websites in the same way; it is how YouTube's own embedding guide works. The code loads a short script from plota.co.uk that adds that window and keeps it the height of the feed, so there is never a second scrollbar.
It has no access to your website
The feed cannot read, change or touch anything else on your site. The script in the code does two things only: it adds the feed's window and sets its height. The feed shows no adverts and sets no advertising or analytics cookies; like any web service, standard security logging applies when a browser loads it (IP addresses, processed by our security provider Cloudflare - details in our privacy notice). Browsers enforce the separation between an iframe and the page around it, and the code adds a sandbox restriction on top. If your website system does not accept scripts, the Iframe code gives the same feed with no script on your page. For an independent technical description, see MDN Web Docs, the web reference maintained by Mozilla, makers of the Firefox browser.
Removing it takes seconds
Delete the snippet and it is gone. Nothing is installed on your website, no account is created, and there is nothing to update or maintain.
What should our privacy statement say?
Copy this into your website’s privacy page: "Our planning page embeds a feed from Plota (plota.co.uk). When it loads, visitors’ browsers contact Plota’s servers, which use Cloudflare for security; IP addresses appear in security logs kept for up to 90 days, and Cloudflare may set a strictly necessary security cookie. Details: plota.co.uk/privacy."
Does it meet the accessibility regulations?
Yes. The feed meets WCAG 2.2 level AA, the standard the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018 require of council websites, in every style and colour. Every link and control works by keyboard with a visible focus ring; text contrast is at least 4.5:1, and a colour you choose is darkened if it would fall below that; screen readers hear a heading, a named map and which links open a new tab; it reflows to a phone's width and zooms to 400% without losing anything; and it has no motion for readers who turn motion off. The frame carries a descriptive title. We check it with automated tests on every change and by hand. Our Accessibility Conformance Report (VPAT® 2.5, WCAG edition) answers each WCAG 2.2 A and AA criterion, and the test results show every style tested. If a resident reports a problem, email hello@plota.co.uk and we will fix it.
Adding it to a WordPress website
Open the page in the WordPress editor, click + where the feed should go, choose the Custom HTML block, paste the code and update the page. In the older WordPress editor, switch to the Text tab before you paste. Page builders have their own block for this: the HTML widget in Elementor, the Code module in Divi and the HTML module in Beaver Builder. If the code shows on the page as text, it went into an ordinary paragraph; put it in a Custom HTML block instead. If the feed disappears when you save, your login is not allowed to add code, which is common when a web company manages the site: use the button above to email the instructions to them. Sites hosted on WordPress.com can add code on its Business plan or above.
How can we try it first?
Copy the code above, open W3Schools' free practice editor, paste it over the example on the left and press Run. You will see exactly what the code does, in a practice page that is not connected to your website.
The feed is provided by Plota, the most visited planning application search website in the UK.*
Plota is a planning application search engine covering councils across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Residents use it to search any planning application in the UK, see what is proposed on a map, and get free email alerts when new applications appear near them. Every application is sorted by type (new homes, extensions, tree works, change of use and more), can be followed through to its decision, and links back to the official council record. Explore it at plota.co.uk.
* Similarweb, August 2026.