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Barking and Dagenham planning data

5,618 planning applications from Barking and Dagenham. 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. 13 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

5,618

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,076

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Barking and Dagenham decides

Barking and Dagenham has approved 74.3% of the 3,397 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%).

74.3%

Approved, of 3,397 decided

Median days to a decision

62.2

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,335	23.8%
Certificate	1,145	20.4%
Other	1,098	19.5%
Full	833	14.8%
Conditions	782	13.9%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Barking and Dagenham 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 Barking and Dagenham actually provides each one, across all 5,618 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 Barking and Dagenham 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`	5,618	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,617	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	5,618	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,617	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,618	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,617	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,618	100.0%
Status `status`	5,614	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,614	99.9%
Ward `ward`	5,577	99.3%
Decision `decision`	5,360	95.4%
Decision date `decision_date`	5,360	95.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	5,354	95.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	4,985	88.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,822	85.8%
Agent's company `agent_company`	4,201	74.8%
Standardised type `standard_type`	3,998	71.2%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	2,898	51.6%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	2,898	51.6%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	165	2.9%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	157	2.8%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	157	2.8%
Agent's email `agent_email`	0	0.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Barking and Dagenham'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 phone Type of development Officer's recommendation

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curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=127&limit=5"

Council id for Barking and Dagenham is 127. Full API reference for developers →

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