Greater Manchester

Bolton planning data

7,097 planning applications from Bolton. 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.

7,097

Applications

203

Enforcement notices

826

Appeals

2002–2026

Date range

What Bolton decides

Bolton has approved 81.88% of the 5,403 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%).

81.88%

Approved, of 5,403 decided

Median days to a decision

82.2

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	2,608	36.7%
Householder	1,157	16.3%
Tree	968	13.6%
Conditions	918	12.9%
Other	691	9.7%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Bolton 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 Bolton actually provides each one, across all 7,097 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 Bolton 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`	7,097	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	7,094	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	7,097	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	7,097	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	7,097	100.0%
Status `status`	7,095	100.0%
Ward `ward`	7,051	99.4%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	7,040	99.2%
Case officer `case_officer`	7,037	99.2%
Postcode `postcode`	6,689	94.3%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	6,648	93.7%
Decision `decision`	6,628	93.4%
Decision date `decision_date`	6,628	93.4%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	6,523	91.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	6,450	90.9%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	5,981	84.3%
Agent's email `agent_email`	5,973	84.2%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	5,897	83.1%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	5,653	79.7%
Standardised type `standard_type`	5,588	78.7%
Agent's company `agent_company`	5,518	77.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	142	2.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	142	2.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Bolton'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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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=1&limit=5"

Council id for Bolton is 1. Full API reference for developers →

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