Derbyshire

Bolsover planning data

2,029 planning applications from Bolsover. 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.

2,029

Applications

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Enforcement notices

126

Appeals

2003–2026

Date range

What Bolsover decides

Bolsover has approved 95.18% of the 1,329 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%).

95.18%

Approved, of 1,329 decided

Median days to a decision

-272.5

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	958	47.2%
Conditions	340	16.8%
Other	212	10.4%
Tree	182	9.0%
Amendment	160	7.9%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Bolsover 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 Bolsover actually provides each one, across all 2,029 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 Bolsover 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`	2,029	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,029	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,029	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,029	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,027	99.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,009	99.0%
Ward `ward`	1,980	97.6%
Agent's email `agent_email`	1,958	96.5%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,937	95.5%
Decision `decision`	1,936	95.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,865	91.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	1,842	90.8%
Status `status`	1,828	90.1%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	1,828	90.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	1,739	85.7%
Postcode `postcode`	1,400	69.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	1,371	67.6%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,360	67.0%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	1,277	62.9%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,144	56.4%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	112	5.5%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	21	1.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	21	1.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Bolsover'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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Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Bolsover 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=170&limit=5"

Council id for Bolsover is 170. Full API reference for developers →

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