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Brent planning data

13,772 planning applications from Brent. 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. 16 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

13,772

Applications

Enforcement notices

3,231

Appeals

1989–2026

Date range

What Brent decides

Brent has approved 76.45% of the 11,902 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%).

76.45%

Approved, of 11,902 decided

Median days to a decision

72.4

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	4,879	35.4%
Householder	4,129	30.0%
Certificate	1,823	13.2%
Other	1,331	9.7%
Tree	659	4.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Brent 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 Brent actually provides each one, across all 13,772 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 Brent 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`	13,772	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	13,772	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	13,772	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	13,754	99.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	13,752	99.9%
Date received `received_date`	13,761	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	13,731	99.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	13,651	99.1%
Ward `ward`	13,565	98.5%
Status `status`	13,422	97.5%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	13,422	97.5%
Decision date `decision_date`	13,208	95.9%
Decision `decision`	13,191	95.8%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	12,626	91.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	12,600	91.5%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	12,431	90.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	12,030	87.4%
Agent's company `agent_company`	11,808	85.7%
Standardised type `standard_type`	8,971	65.1%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	384	2.8%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	384	2.8%
Agent's email `agent_email`	12	0.1%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Brent'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

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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=139&limit=5"

Council id for Brent is 139. Full API reference for developers →

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