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Bath planning data

14,600 planning applications from Bath. 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. 15 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

14,600

Applications

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Enforcement notices

824

Appeals

2021–2026

Date range

What Bath decides

Bath has approved 93.36% of the 7,682 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%).

93.36%

Approved, of 7,682 decided

Median days to a decision

75.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	4,680	32.1%
Tree	3,568	24.4%
Conditions	1,998	13.7%
Listed building	1,753	12.0%
Amendment	888	6.1%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Bath 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 Bath actually provides each one, across all 14,600 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 Bath 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`	14,600	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	14,600	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	14,600	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	14,600	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	14,600	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	14,565	99.8%
Status `status`	14,569	99.8%
Ward `ward`	14,551	99.7%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	14,523	99.5%
Case officer `case_officer`	14,247	97.6%
Decision `decision`	13,688	93.8%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	13,695	93.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	13,682	93.7%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	13,635	93.4%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	13,342	91.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	12,879	88.2%
Agent's name `agent_name`	10,839	74.2%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	116	0.8%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	116	0.8%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Bath'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 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 Bath 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=81528&limit=5"

Council id for Bath is 81528. Full API reference for developers →

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