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Ashford planning data

7,754 planning applications from Ashford. Ask questions about them in plain English from ChatGPT or Claude — no coding, about two minutes to set up — or pull them straight into your own software. 14 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

7,754

Applications

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Enforcement notices

517

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Ashford decides

Ashford has approved 89.18% of the 5,640 applications it has decided since January 2023. Across the 225 councils with a comparable caseload the range is 71.37% to 99.14%, so this is at or above the middle of the pack (89.18%).

89.18%

Approved, of 5,640 decided

Median days to a decision

80.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

The mix of application types Ashford handles — useful for telling whether your kind of application is routine here or unusual.

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,819	23.5%
Full	1,275	16.4%
Conditions	1,108	14.3%
Tree	1,072	13.8%
Listed building	585	7.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Ashford actually fills in

A "field" is one piece of information on an application — the decision date, the applicant's name, the address. Councils fill these in inconsistently, so this table measures how often Ashford actually provides each one, across all 7,754 records. Anything listed as reliable you can count on; anything lower, check the council's own record before relying on it.

Once this data is connected to ChatGPT or Claude you can just ask "what information does Ashford actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Address `address`	7,754	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	7,753	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	7,754	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	7,754	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	7,754	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	7,754	100.0%
Status `status`	7,754	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	7,753	100.0%
Ward `ward`	7,754	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	7,735	99.8%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	7,620	98.3%
Decision `decision`	7,249	93.5%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	7,215	93.0%
Decision date `decision_date`	7,177	92.6%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	6,809	87.8%
Agent's name `agent_name`	6,055	78.1%
Standardised type `standard_type`	3,711	47.9%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Ashford's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

Agent's company Agent's email Agent's phone Appeal decision Type of development Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Officer's recommendation

Get this data

Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Ashford last year?" or "what's the planning history of this address?" — no coding, about two minutes to set up. Setup guide →

Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=96&limit=5"

Council id for Ashford is 96. Full API reference for developers →

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