Lancashire
3,374 planning applications from Blackburn with Darwen. 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.
We don't yet have Blackburn with Darwen's full history back to 2023 — it's loading now. The figures below cover what we already hold, so treat them as a minimum rather than the full picture. Alerts for new day-to-day changes start once loading is complete.
Blackburn with Darwen has approved 93.65% of the 2,773 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%).
The mix of application types Blackburn with Darwen handles — useful for telling whether your kind of application is routine here or unusual.
| Application type | Applications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Full | 1,782 | 52.8% |
| Conditions | 436 | 12.9% |
| Tree | 296 | 8.8% |
| Amendment | 259 | 7.7% |
| Other | 161 | 4.8% |
How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →
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 Blackburn with Darwen actually provides each one, across all 3,374 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 Blackburn with Darwen actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →
| Information | Records with it | Coverage | |
|---|---|---|---|
Addressaddress |
3,373 | 100.0% | |
Case officercase_officer |
3,373 | 100.0% | |
Council referencereference |
3,374 | 100.0% | |
Statusstatus |
3,373 | 100.0% | |
Applicant's nameapplicant_name |
3,370 | 99.9% | |
Application typeapplication_type |
3,372 | 99.9% | |
Who decided it (officer or committee)decision_level |
3,372 | 99.9% | |
Description of the worksdescription |
3,371 | 99.9% | |
Status (standardised wording)status_normalized |
3,372 | 99.9% | |
Map coordinates (easting)easting |
3,322 | 98.5% | |
Map coordinates (northing)northing |
3,322 | 98.5% | |
Date receivedreceived_date |
3,216 | 95.3% | |
Decisiondecision |
3,169 | 93.9% | |
Decision (standardised wording)decision_normalized |
3,168 | 93.9% |
| Information | Records with it | Coverage | |
|---|---|---|---|
Postcodepostcode |
3,019 | 89.5% | |
Wardward |
2,991 | 88.6% | |
Standardised typestandard_type |
2,949 | 87.4% | |
Agent's nameagent_name |
2,711 | 80.3% | |
Decision datedecision_date |
1,591 | 47.2% |
| Information | Records with it | Coverage | |
|---|---|---|---|
Appeal decisionappeal_decision |
27 | 0.8% | |
Appeal decision (standardised wording)appeal_decision_normalized |
27 | 0.8% | |
Officer's recommendationofficer_recommendation |
15 | 0.4% | |
Type of developmentdevelopment_type |
0 | 0.0% |
Blackburn with Darwen'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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Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Blackburn with Darwen last year?" or "what's the planning history of this address?" — no coding, about two minutes to set up. Setup guide →
curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \ "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=17&limit=5"
Council id for Blackburn with Darwen is 17.
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