Greater Cambridge

Cambridge planning data

22,935 planning applications from Cambridge. 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.

22,935

Applications

100

Enforcement notices

3,808

Appeals

1962–2026

Date range

What Cambridge decides

Cambridge has approved 89.4% of the 12,466 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 at or above the middle of the pack (89.18%).

89.4%

Approved, of 12,466 decided

Median days to a decision

78.7

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	7,530	32.8%
Tree	4,760	20.8%
Householder	4,673	20.4%
Full	3,257	14.2%
Listed building	1,200	5.2%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Cambridge 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 Cambridge actually provides each one, across all 22,935 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 Cambridge 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`	22,935	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	22,935	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	22,935	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	22,917	99.9%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	22,889	99.8%
Application type `application_type`	22,899	99.8%
Ward `ward`	22,846	99.6%
Agent's email `agent_email`	22,817	99.5%
Case officer `case_officer`	22,825	99.5%
Status `status`	22,293	97.2%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	22,293	97.2%
Decision `decision`	21,777	95.0%
Decision date `decision_date`	21,780	95.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	21,733	94.8%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	21,382	93.2%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	21,337	93.0%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	20,310	88.6%
Agent's name `agent_name`	18,726	81.6%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	18,442	80.4%
Agent's company `agent_company`	18,035	78.6%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	3,133	13.7%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,850	12.4%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	304	1.3%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Cambridge'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

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Cambridge last year?" or "what's the planning history of this address?" — no coding, about two minutes to set up. Setup guide →

Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=189&limit=5"

Council id for Cambridge is 189. Full API reference for developers →

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