Free nearby data

Official public places and services nearby.

One consistent interface, with each publisher’s identifiers, dates, ratings and freshness retained.

Available categories

school — DfE GIAS establishments joined to Ofsted outcomes and the latest loaded DfE school-performance measures by URN.
care_provider — CQC-regulated locations and published service/domain ratings.
gp_practice — active NHS England ODS GP practices.
pharmacy — active NHS England ODS pharmacies.
dentist — active NHS England ODS dental practices.
station and bus_stop — official NaPTAN access nodes and active bus stops.
cycle_hire — TfL BikePoint docks without live availability.
open_space — OS Open Greenspace sites represented by their polygon centroid.

GET https://api.civicdata.co.uk/v1/nearby/school/E15%202NE?radius_metres=1500

Use the same categories with the MCP find_nearby tool. Ofsted frameworks remain separate from DfE cohort/performance measures, suppressed values remain null, CQC publication dates are not relabelled as inspection dates, and Civic Data never derives a provider quality score.

Distances are straight-line. Schools, transport and BikePoint use publisher coordinates; CQC and NHS records use the ONS centroid of the provider postcode. Greenspace distance is to the site centroid, not its boundary or access point.

Read the methodology