West Midlands

Birmingham planning data

23,346 planning applications from Birmingham. 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.

23,346

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,511

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Birmingham decides

Birmingham has approved 83.21% of the 20,020 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%).

83.21%

Approved, of 20,020 decided

62.5

Median days to a decision

90.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	10,810	46.3%
Full	4,051	17.4%
Conditions	2,886	12.4%
Other	1,658	7.1%
Certificate	1,537	6.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Birmingham 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 Birmingham actually provides each one, across all 23,346 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 Birmingham 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`	23,346	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	23,346	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	23,342	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	23,343	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	23,346	100.0%
Status `status`	23,346	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	23,346	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	23,139	99.1%
Ward `ward`	23,129	99.1%
Case officer `case_officer`	23,104	99.0%
Postcode `postcode`	22,625	96.9%
Decision `decision`	21,932	93.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	21,898	93.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	21,079	90.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	20,952	89.7%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	220	0.9%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	0	0.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Birmingham'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 email Agent's phone Alternative reference Appeal decision Who decided it (officer or committee) Type of development 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 Birmingham 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=81419&limit=5"

Council id for Birmingham is 81419. Full API reference for developers →

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