Planning permission status

Every application in this site's planning dataset (see /planning — decisions from the last 3 years, source: Government of Jersey Planning Register), classified against Article 23(3)(b) of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002 — 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.

Why "lapsed" is such a small bucket right now: this site's planning dataset itself only covers decisions from the last 3 years, so almost nothing in it is old enough to have crossed the 3-year line yet — the oldest decision on file is from 26 Aug 2025, itself barely 3 years old. Plenty of genuinely lapsed permissions exist further back in Jersey's planning history; they're simply outside this dataset's current window, not absent from the island. Expect this bucket to fill in gradually as today's "live" applications age past the 3-year mark.