Cheshire

Cheshire East planning data

6,014 planning applications from Cheshire East. 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. 14 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

6,014

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,603

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Cheshire East decides

Cheshire East has approved 82.88% of the 4,312 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%).

82.88%

Approved, of 4,312 decided

Median days to a decision

118.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,876	31.2%
Full	1,216	20.2%
Tree	699	11.6%
Conditions	596	9.9%
Certificate	433	7.2%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Cheshire East 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 Cheshire East actually provides each one, across all 6,014 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 Cheshire East 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`	6,014	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	6,014	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	6,012	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	6,014	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	6,014	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	6,014	100.0%
Status `status`	6,014	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	6,014	100.0%
Ward `ward`	6,006	99.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	6,003	99.8%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,943	98.8%
Postcode `postcode`	5,486	91.2%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	5,466	90.9%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	5,466	90.9%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision `decision`	5,195	86.4%
Decision date `decision_date`	5,185	86.2%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,949	82.3%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,757	79.1%
Agent's company `agent_company`	2,537	42.2%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,940	32.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	173	2.9%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	156	2.6%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	156	2.6%
Agent's email `agent_email`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Cheshire East'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 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 Cheshire East 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=30&limit=5"

Council id for Cheshire East is 30. Full API reference for developers →

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