Scotland MCA tracker

A static page listing every Masterplan Consent Area scheme in Scotland, its stage in the Scottish Government's seven-stage process, the dates behind it, and the source for each claim.

Files

• index.html — the page. No build step. Loads data.json and Leaflet (CDN) at runtime.
• data.json — the ledger. Every fact on the page comes from here.
• sources/ — archived text of sources that may disappear (council pages rot; Stirling's already has).

Run locally

fetch('data.json') fails on file://, so serve the directory:

python3 -m http.server 8000

Open http://localhost:8000.

Host

• GitHub Pages: Settings → Pages → Deploy from branch → main, / (root).
• Cloudflare Pages: connect the repo, no build command, output directory /.

Update

1. Check each scheme's sources and any news (Scottish Housing News, Project Scotland, Scottish Construction Now, council news pages).
2. Edit data.json:
   • schemes[].stage — 0 to 7 (see stages), or null when the status cannot be established.
   • schemes[].homes_original, homes, homes_consented, homes_built — homes when the site was put forward, now planned, consented through a made scheme, and completed under it. Leave absent for non-housing schemes; the Homes section sums whatever is present.
   • schemes[].events — add a dated entry with a url for every change.
   • schemes[].verified and authorities[].verified — set to the date you checked, even if nothing changed.
   • changes — one entry per update describing what moved.
   • updated — the date of the update.
3. Save a text copy of any new source that is a PDF or a page likely to move into sources/ and reference it with archived.

Stage vocabulary

From Figure 1 of the MCA guidance:

n	Stage
0	Considering (no scheme initiated)
1	Project initiation
2	Consult on possible proposals
3	Prepare proposed scheme and consult (30-day representations)
4	Finalise scheme
5	Decision making and notification to Ministers
6	Make the scheme
7	Publicity of the made scheme

A scheme counts as "made" at stage 6 or later.

Authorities

authorities lists all 34 planning authorities (32 councils, 2 national park authorities). statement is published, unknown, or not checked. Each must publish a duty-to-consider statement at least every five years; the first was due 25 July 2024.