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Bury planning data

4,417 planning applications from Bury. 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. 15 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

4,417

Applications

231

Enforcement notices

297

Appeals

2005–2026

Date range

What Bury decides

Bury has approved 87.05% of the 3,699 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%).

87.05%

Approved, of 3,699 decided

Median days to a decision

79.9

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	3,111	70.4%
Other	387	8.8%
Certificate	359	8.1%
Conditions	253	5.7%
Amendment	148	3.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Bury 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 Bury actually provides each one, across all 4,417 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 Bury 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`	4,417	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	4,416	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	4,417	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	4,417	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,417	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,400	99.6%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,388	99.3%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,363	98.8%
Ward `ward`	4,322	97.8%
Postcode `postcode`	4,306	97.5%
Decision `decision`	4,256	96.4%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,256	96.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,246	96.1%
Status `status`	4,225	95.7%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,225	95.7%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,930	89.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	3,896	88.2%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,361	76.1%
Standardised type `standard_type`	3,139	71.1%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	98	2.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	97	2.2%
Agent's email `agent_email`	0	0.0%
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

Bury'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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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=2&limit=5"

Council id for Bury is 2. Full API reference for developers →

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