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Bristol planning data

10,536 planning applications from Bristol, available as JSON over REST or through the MCP server. 12 fields are populated on at least 90% of records.

10,536
Applications
Enforcement notices
1,948
Appeals
1998–2026
Date range

Field coverage

Measured across all 10,536 records. This is what is actually filled in, not what the council's portal offers — ask get_council_fields for the same numbers from an MCP client.

Reliable — 90% or more of records

FieldPopulated Coverage
address 10,536 100.0%
description 10,536 100.0%
reference 10,536 100.0%
status 10,504 99.7%
status_normalized 10,504 99.7%
postcode 10,296 97.7%
application_type 9,965 94.6%
ward 9,962 94.6%
received_date 9,960 94.5%
applicant_name 9,887 93.8%
decision 9,503 90.2%
decision_date 9,494 90.1%

Partial — use with care

FieldPopulated Coverage
alternative_reference 9,201 87.3%
standard_type 9,079 86.2%
decision_level 8,553 81.2%
agent_id 8,272 78.5%
agent_name 8,272 78.5%
agent_email 8,170 77.5%
decision_normalized 7,894 74.9%

Rarely or never published

FieldPopulated Coverage
appeal_decision 229 2.2%
appeal_decision_normalized 229 2.2%
property_id 102 1.0%
agent_company 74 0.7%
agent_phone 13 0.1%
case_officer 0 0.0%
development_type 0 0.0%
easting 0 0.0%
northing 0 0.0%
officer_id 0 0.0%
officer_recommendation 0 0.0%

Query it

curl -H "X-Api-Key: $KEY" \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=104&limit=5"

Council id for Bristol is 104. Full endpoint reference →

Get a key for Bristol data

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