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Bedford planning data

4,266 planning applications from Bedford, available as JSON over REST or through the MCP server. 6 fields are populated on at least 90% of records.

4,266
Applications
54
Enforcement notices
883
Appeals
1997–2026
Date range

Field coverage

Measured across all 4,266 records. This is what is actually filled in, not what the council's portal offers — ask get_council_fields for the same numbers from an MCP client.

Reliable — 90% or more of records

FieldPopulated Coverage
address 4,266 100.0%
description 4,266 100.0%
received_date 4,266 100.0%
reference 4,266 100.0%
status 4,253 99.7%
status_normalized 4,253 99.7%

Partial — use with care

FieldPopulated Coverage
postcode 3,554 83.3%
decision_normalized 3,500 82.0%
ward 3,355 78.6%
applicant_name 667 15.6%
application_type 667 15.6%
case_officer 667 15.6%
officer_id 667 15.6%
alternative_reference 570 13.4%
agent_id 551 12.9%
agent_name 551 12.9%
decision_date 480 11.3%
decision 474 11.1%

Rarely or never published

FieldPopulated Coverage
standard_type 395 9.3%
agent_email 325 7.6%
agent_phone 308 7.2%
decision_level 240 5.6%
appeal_decision 16 0.4%
appeal_decision_normalized 16 0.4%
agent_company 2 0.0%
development_type 0 0.0%
easting 0 0.0%
northing 0 0.0%
officer_recommendation 0 0.0%
property_id 0 0.0%

Query it

curl -H "X-Api-Key: $KEY" \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=86&limit=5"

Council id for Bedford is 86. Full endpoint reference →

Get a key for Bedford data

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