Oxfordshire

Cherwell planning data

2,197 planning applications from Cherwell. 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. 11 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

2,197

Applications

—

Enforcement notices

558

Appeals

2022–2026

Date range

What Cherwell decides

Cherwell has approved 90.29% of the 1,710 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%).

90.29%

Approved, of 1,710 decided

Median days to a decision

88.9

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	907	41.3%
Tree	339	15.4%
Conditions	320	14.6%
Other	207	9.4%
Listed building	172	7.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Cherwell 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 Cherwell actually provides each one, across all 2,197 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 Cherwell 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`	2,197	100.0%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,196	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,197	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,197	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,196	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,197	100.0%
Status `status`	2,197	100.0%
Ward `ward`	2,197	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,189	99.6%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,132	97.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,019	91.9%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision `decision`	1,876	85.4%
Postcode `postcode`	1,849	84.2%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,841	83.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,771	80.6%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,634	74.4%
Case officer `case_officer`	377	17.2%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's email `agent_email`	29	1.3%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	29	1.3%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	29	1.3%
Agent's company `agent_company`	25	1.1%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Cherwell'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 phone Alternative reference Type of development Officer's recommendation

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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 Cherwell 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=201&limit=5"

Council id for Cherwell is 201. Full API reference for developers →

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