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Breckland planning data

5,316 planning applications from Breckland. 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. 13 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

5,316

Applications

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Enforcement notices

627

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Breckland decides

Breckland has approved 86.5% of the 3,474 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%).

86.5%

Approved, of 3,474 decided

Median days to a decision

70.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,078	20.3%
Other	1,023	19.2%
Tree	933	17.6%
Conditions	790	14.9%
Amendment	508	9.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Breckland 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 Breckland actually provides each one, across all 5,316 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 Breckland 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`	5,316	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	5,316	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,316	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,316	100.0%
Status `status`	5,316	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,316	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,313	99.9%
Ward `ward`	5,310	99.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,290	99.5%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,277	99.3%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,237	98.5%
Decision date `decision_date`	5,030	94.6%
Decision `decision`	5,026	94.5%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,652	87.5%
Postcode `postcode`	4,492	84.5%
Agent's company `agent_company`	4,371	82.2%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,205	41.5%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	1,835	34.5%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	1,835	34.5%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	113	2.1%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	95	1.8%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	95	1.8%
Agent's email `agent_email`	0	0.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Breckland'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 phone Type of development Officer's recommendation

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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 Breckland 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=81430&limit=5"

Council id for Breckland is 81430. Full API reference for developers →

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