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Plota holds 5,135 current planning applications from City of Edinburgh Council, received since 19 Aug 2025, 1,255 of them in the last 90 days. Behind them, the Plota archive holds 56,901 earlier applications from City of Edinburgh Council, 2016 to 2025, searchable by location and keyword. Current records are collected from the council's public register at citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk and checked every day; the last check was on 7 Oct 2026. Each record carries the council's reference, address, proposal, dates, status and decision, with a map location and Plota's classification by type and procedure added. The council's own record is the authoritative version; every entry here links to it.
Latest application from Edinburgh: 6 Oct 2026. We check the council's portal daily.