Suffolk

Babergh Mid Suffolk planning data

15,316 planning applications from Babergh Mid Suffolk. 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. 6 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

15,316

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,219

Appeals

1978–2026

Date range

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What Babergh Mid Suffolk decides

Babergh Mid Suffolk has approved 87.19% of the 4,254 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 below the middle of the pack (89.18%).

87.19%

Approved, of 4,254 decided

Median days to a decision

66.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	9,985	65.2%
Conditions	1,702	11.1%
Householder	1,014	6.6%
Full	899	5.9%
Tree	667	4.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Babergh Mid Suffolk 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 Babergh Mid Suffolk actually provides each one, across all 15,316 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 Babergh Mid Suffolk 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`	15,316	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	15,316	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	15,316	100.0%
Status `status`	15,171	99.1%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	15,171	99.1%
Ward `ward`	13,906	90.8%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	12,502	81.6%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	12,400	81.0%
Date received `received_date`	6,110	39.9%
Application type `application_type`	5,886	38.4%
Agent's email `agent_email`	5,829	38.1%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,742	37.5%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,644	36.9%
Decision `decision`	5,139	33.6%
Decision date `decision_date`	5,146	33.6%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,746	31.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	4,276	27.9%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	4,240	27.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,233	27.6%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,021	19.7%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	247	1.6%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	99	0.6%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	99	0.6%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

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

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curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=159&limit=5"

Council id for Babergh Mid Suffolk is 159. Full API reference for developers →

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