Cheshire

Cheshire West and Chester planning data

12,805 planning applications from Cheshire West and Chester. 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.

12,805

Applications

163

Enforcement notices

14,175

Appeals

1975–2026

Date range

What Cheshire West and Chester decides

Cheshire West and Chester has approved 91.62% of the 9,566 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%).

91.62%

Approved, of 9,566 decided

Median days to a decision

118.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	5,619	43.9%
Other	2,847	22.2%
Tree	1,174	9.2%
Conditions	990	7.7%
Certificate	822	6.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Cheshire West and Chester 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 West and Chester actually provides each one, across all 12,805 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 West and Chester 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`	12,805	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	12,805	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	12,804	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	12,805	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	12,789	99.9%
Status `status`	12,776	99.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	12,776	99.8%
Ward `ward`	12,774	99.8%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	12,739	99.5%
Decision date `decision_date`	11,609	90.7%
Decision `decision`	11,601	90.6%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	11,163	87.2%
Postcode `postcode`	10,764	84.1%
Case officer `case_officer`	10,724	83.7%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	10,183	79.5%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	10,035	78.4%
Agent's name `agent_name`	9,327	72.8%
Agent's email `agent_email`	9,271	72.4%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	9,088	71.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	8,144	63.6%
Agent's company `agent_company`	2,687	21.0%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	296	2.3%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	296	2.3%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Cheshire West and Chester'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=31&limit=5"

Council id for Cheshire West and Chester is 31. Full API reference for developers →

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