Bedfordshire

Central Bedfordshire planning data

2,033 planning applications from Central Bedfordshire. 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. 9 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

2,033

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,174

Appeals

2004–2026

Date range

What Central Bedfordshire decides

Central Bedfordshire has approved 86.87% of the 1,363 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%).

86.87%

Approved, of 1,363 decided

Median days to a decision

89.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	1,129	55.5%
Conditions	286	14.1%
Other	264	13.0%
Certificate	163	8.0%
Listed building	88	4.3%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Central Bedfordshire 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 Central Bedfordshire actually provides each one, across all 2,033 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 Central Bedfordshire 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`	2,033	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,033	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,032	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,033	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,033	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,033	100.0%
Status `status`	2,033	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,033	100.0%
Decision `decision`	1,837	90.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision date `decision_date`	1,822	89.6%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,820	89.5%
Postcode `postcode`	1,796	88.3%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,682	82.7%
Ward `ward`	1,596	78.5%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	387	19.0%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	58	2.9%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	58	2.9%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Central Bedfordshire'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 Alternative reference Applicant's name Type of development Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Officer's recommendation

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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=81557&limit=5"

Council id for Central Bedfordshire is 81557. Full API reference for developers →

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