Berkshire

Bracknell planning data

4,839 planning applications from Bracknell. 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. 7 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

4,839

Applications

201

Enforcement notices

577

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Bracknell decides

Bracknell has approved 91.23% of the 3,512 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%).

91.23%

Approved, of 3,512 decided

Decision times can't be measured here — Bracknell doesn't publish both a received and a decision date on enough records. The nationwide range across councils that do is 31 to 299 days.

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	1,792	37.0%
Other	766	15.8%
Conditions	686	14.2%
Tree	680	14.1%
Certificate	369	7.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Bracknell 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 Bracknell actually provides each one, across all 4,839 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 Bracknell actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Council reference `reference`	4,839	100.0%
Address `address`	4,832	99.9%
Status `status`	4,834	99.9%
Application type `application_type`	4,743	98.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,641	95.9%
Ward `ward`	4,568	94.4%
Description of the works `description`	4,407	91.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,311	89.1%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,277	88.4%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,263	88.1%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	4,033	83.3%
Decision date `decision_date`	3,956	81.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,845	79.5%
Decision `decision`	3,805	78.6%
Standardised type `standard_type`	3,500	72.3%
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,247	67.1%
Postcode `postcode`	3,168	65.5%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Bracknell'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 company Agent's email Agent's phone Appeal decision Type of development Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Officer's recommendation Date received

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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=173&limit=5"

Council id for Bracknell is 173. Full API reference for developers →

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