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Chelmsford planning data

10,398 planning applications from Chelmsford, available as JSON over REST or through the MCP server. 10 fields are populated on at least 90% of records.

10,398
Applications
48
Enforcement notices
11,253
Appeals
1957–2026
Date range

Field coverage

Measured across all 10,398 records. This is what is actually filled in, not what the council's portal offers — ask get_council_fields for the same numbers from an MCP client.

Reliable — 90% or more of records

FieldPopulated Coverage
address 10,398 100.0%
description 10,398 100.0%
reference 10,398 100.0%
received_date 10,319 99.2%
status 10,270 98.8%
status_normalized 10,184 97.9%
agent_email 10,146 97.6%
decision_date 9,921 95.4%
alternative_reference 9,754 93.8%
decision_normalized 9,738 93.7%

Partial — use with care

FieldPopulated Coverage
postcode 8,268 79.5%
ward 8,239 79.2%
agent_phone 5,740 55.2%

Rarely or never published

FieldPopulated Coverage
appeal_decision 344 3.3%
appeal_decision_normalized 338 3.3%
property_id 53 0.5%
agent_company 0 0.0%
agent_id 0 0.0%
agent_name 0 0.0%
applicant_name 0 0.0%
application_type 0 0.0%
case_officer 0 0.0%
decision 0 0.0%
decision_level 0 0.0%
development_type 0 0.0%
easting 0 0.0%
northing 0 0.0%
officer_id 0 0.0%
officer_recommendation 0 0.0%
standard_type 0 0.0%

Query it

curl -H "X-Api-Key: $KEY" \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=199&limit=5"

Council id for Chelmsford is 199. Full endpoint reference →

Get a key for Chelmsford data

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