Cumbria

Carlisle planning data

3,902 planning applications from Carlisle. 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.

3,902

Applications

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Enforcement notices

Appeals

1993–2026

Date range

What Carlisle decides

Carlisle has approved 96.38% of the 3,285 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%).

96.38%

Approved, of 3,285 decided

Median days to a decision

96.7

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	1,045	26.8%
Householder	793	20.3%
Other	529	13.6%
Tree	427	10.9%
Amendment	337	8.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Carlisle 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 Carlisle actually provides each one, across all 3,902 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 Carlisle 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`	3,902	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	3,902	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	3,902	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	3,891	99.7%
Application type `application_type`	3,884	99.5%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	3,877	99.4%
Case officer `case_officer`	3,879	99.4%
Ward `ward`	3,871	99.2%
Status `status`	3,851	98.7%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	3,851	98.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	3,820	97.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	3,749	96.1%
Postcode `postcode`	3,674	94.2%
Decision date `decision_date`	3,655	93.7%
Decision `decision`	3,617	92.7%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,499	89.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,967	76.0%
Agent's company `agent_company`	2,837	72.7%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	33	0.8%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	31	0.8%
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%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Carlisle'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=81377&limit=5"

Council id for Carlisle is 81377. Full API reference for developers →

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