Bristol

Bristol planning data

18,059 planning applications from Bristol. 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.

18,059

Applications

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Enforcement notices

2,285

Appeals

1946–2026

Date range

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What Bristol decides

Bristol has approved 86.86% of the 8,917 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%).

86.86%

Approved, of 8,917 decided

Median days to a decision

109.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Tree	3,921	21.7%
Householder	3,188	17.7%
Full	2,994	16.6%
Conditions	2,473	13.7%
Certificate	1,965	10.9%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Bristol 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 Bristol actually provides each one, across all 18,059 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 Bristol 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`	18,059	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	18,059	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	18,059	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	18,059	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	18,033	99.9%
Ward `ward`	18,023	99.8%
Status `status`	17,976	99.5%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	17,976	99.5%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	17,895	99.1%
Postcode `postcode`	17,607	97.5%
Decision `decision`	17,565	97.3%
Decision date `decision_date`	17,565	97.3%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	16,652	92.2%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	15,718	87.0%
Agent's name `agent_name`	14,886	82.4%
Agent's email `agent_email`	14,840	82.2%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	14,631	81.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	9,079	50.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	406	2.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	406	2.2%
Agent's company `agent_company`	74	0.4%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	24	0.1%
Case officer `case_officer`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Bristol'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=104&limit=5"

Council id for Bristol is 104. Full API reference for developers →

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