National picture
Type a council or district name. Every figure on the page that follows is computed from a published government file, and says which one.
45 sources from 22 publishers. 17 corrections published, each with what was believed, what was true, and the test that now guards it.
The thirteen questions
Where a place sits furthest from the figure it is published against. Every row carries its source, so a reporter can check it before quoting it. It ranks within each question, then shows the widest of each, so one question's larger gaps cannot fill every row.
Plumbline supplies most of the widest gaps here, and the gap is largely masked by extension agreements: an agreed extension is lawful, so a wide gap alone is not evidence of anything wrong. See Plumbline's definition for what each figure counts.
The two joins, and how a record finds its place
Where every figure comes from
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What this cannot do
National picture
What the record holds right now, what each of the thirteen questions answers, and what needs attention. Every figure is computed from a published record.
Thirteen findings, in numbers
Thirteen questions, each answered from a published government file. Every figure below is the national picture; open a question for how it is computed, what it rests on, and what it cannot tell you.
The thirteen questions, and what each one found
Every figure below is computed from a published government record and carries the coverage it rests on. 13 of 13 questions have measured output; 45 of 47 registered sources returned data to an unauthenticated request on the last run. Computed 2026-09-24.
- Catchment
: School place planning at the geography that matters.
89.5% of mainstream school places in use, 633 specialist settings over capacity
- Sentinel
: Public procurement integrity and collusion detection.
6.2% of awards skipped open competition, across 2,203 award records
- Highwater
: Flood risk against what actually got built.
635 permissions granted against flood advice, of 23,336 objections; 7,011 outcomes never recorded
- Plumbline
: Housing decisions measured against the statutory 13 weeks.
15.9% decided within 13 weeks without an extension, of 14,844 major dwelling decisions; the published measure is 90.4%
- Junction
: Grid connection capacity on one definition.
937 of 7,501 capacity records actually served, 1 of 4 operators serve data openly
- Ledger
: Developer contributions traced to the site.
£1.49bn of developer contributions recorded, 0 of 39,325 carry a location
- Bellwether
: Provider concentration in care and education.
124 authorities depend on one care group, Welltower: 37,404 beds across 72 companies
- Sightline
: Whether expert planning advice is followed.
177 water quality objections, none carry a recorded outcome, the field does not exist
- Lastmile
: Gigabit compliance for new homes.
83.3% gigabit in new-build postcodes, against 83.5% everywhere else
- Bulwark
: Who owns and maintains flood defences.
14,067 inspections overdue, maintainer known on 91% of 141,469 defences
- Watchman
: Insolvency exposure across public suppliers.
0 exposures found in the sample, the register must accumulate before this produces signal
- Compass
: SEND demand forecast by neighbourhood.
+127.4% growth in statutory EHC plans, 236,806 to 538,547 since 2015
- Baseline
: Sewage spills normalised for rainfall.
300,406 spills after adjusting for monitor uptime, 291,492 reported across 14,239 outlets
Each question links to a brief setting out its sources, its method, and what it cannot tell you.
Prototype. Every figure on this page is computed on this machine from published sources, each retrieved without an account, key or fee. Nothing is modelled, estimated or filled in by hand. Source access was verified anonymously on 17 August 2026.
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UK government records what happened.
It rarely records where, or which organisation.
A flood objection with no location. A billion pounds of developer money that can't be put on a map. A care company quietly running a third of a county's beds. The data exists, but two joins are missing, so nobody can use it.
UK GroundTruth adds those two joins, where and who, to data anyone can download, without an account or a fee. That single fix makes thirteen things possible that are impossible today. Every figure below is computed from published records on one machine. Nothing is estimated.
Two links, shared by everything
A messy reference becomes a point on a map
“East Devon 21/0751/FUL” → property reference → coordinate. Seven of the thirteen questions cannot be answered without it.
A name becomes one identified organisation
“SOFTCAT LTD”, “Softcat plc”, “SOFTCAT PLC - FCA” → one company number. Six systems depend on it.