Lancashire

Burnley planning data

2,223 planning applications from Burnley. 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. 12 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

2,223

Applications

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Enforcement notices

424

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Burnley decides

Burnley has approved 83.67% of the 1,421 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%).

83.67%

Approved, of 1,421 decided

Decision times can't be measured here — Burnley 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 Burnley handles — useful for telling whether your kind of application is routine here or unusual.

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	558	25.1%
Full	444	20.0%
Householder	438	19.7%
Conditions	270	12.1%
Amendment	131	5.9%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Burnley 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 Burnley actually provides each one, across all 2,223 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 Burnley 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`	2,223	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,223	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,223	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,223	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,223	100.0%
Status `status`	2,223	100.0%
Ward `ward`	2,223	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,220	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,217	99.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,163	97.3%
Postcode `postcode`	2,062	92.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,016	90.7%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision `decision`	1,871	84.2%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,604	72.2%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,486	66.8%
Standardised type `standard_type`	730	32.8%

Rarely or never published

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

Not published by this council

Burnley'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=18&limit=5"

Council id for Burnley is 18. Full API reference for developers →

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