Cheshire

Chester planning data

803 planning applications from 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. 10 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

803

Applications

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Enforcement notices

750

Appeals

2024–2026

Date range

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What Chester decides

Chester has approved 94.66% of the 337 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%).

94.66%

Approved, of 337 decided

Median days to a decision

62.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	315	39.2%
Other	228	28.4%
Tree	74	9.2%
Conditions	69	8.6%
Certificate	48	6.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What 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 Chester actually provides each one, across all 803 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 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`	803	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	803	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	803	100.0%
Status `status`	802	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	802	99.9%
Date received `received_date`	793	98.8%
Ward `ward`	792	98.6%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	750	93.4%
Application type `application_type`	750	93.4%
Standardised type `standard_type`	750	93.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	664	82.7%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	651	81.1%
Case officer `case_officer`	562	70.0%
Agent's email `agent_email`	530	66.0%
Agent's name `agent_name`	530	66.0%
Decision date `decision_date`	447	55.7%
Decision `decision`	424	52.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	408	50.8%
Agent's company `agent_company`	296	36.9%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	7	0.9%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	7	0.9%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Get this data

Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Chester 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=202&limit=5"

Council id for Chester is 202. Full API reference for developers →

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