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Cornwall planning data

9,466 planning applications from Cornwall. 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. 7 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

9,466
Applications
8
Enforcement notices
2,319
Appeals
1990–2026
Date range
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What Cornwall decides

Cornwall has approved 94.62% of the 3,418 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%).

94.62%
Approved, of 3,418 decided

Decision times can't be measured here — Cornwall doesn't publish both a received and a decision date on enough records. The nationwide range across councils that do is 31 to 299 days.

What it mostly decides

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

Application typeApplications Share
Other 4,485 47.4%
Full 2,183 23.1%
Conditions 982 10.4%
Tree 821 8.7%
Amendment 337 3.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Cornwall 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 Cornwall actually provides each one, across all 9,466 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 Cornwall actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

InformationRecords with it Coverage
Address
address
9,466 100.0%
Description of the works
description
9,466 100.0%
Council reference
reference
9,466 100.0%
Status
status
9,444 99.8%
Status (standardised wording)
status_normalized
9,444 99.8%
Postcode
postcode
8,521 90.0%
Ward
ward
8,523 90.0%

Partial — use with care

InformationRecords with it Coverage
Application type
application_type
7,430 78.5%
Case officer
case_officer
7,427 78.5%
Applicant's name
applicant_name
7,332 77.5%
Agent's email
agent_email
7,136 75.4%
Alternative reference
alternative_reference
6,246 66.0%
Decision
decision
5,996 63.3%
Decision date
decision_date
5,978 63.2%
Who decided it (officer or committee)
decision_level
5,954 62.9%
Agent's name
agent_name
5,652 59.7%
Agent's company
agent_company
5,222 55.2%
Decision (standardised wording)
decision_normalized
4,725 49.9%
Standardised type
standard_type
2,434 25.7%

Rarely or never published

InformationRecords with it Coverage
Appeal decision
appeal_decision
53 0.6%
Appeal decision (standardised wording)
appeal_decision_normalized
53 0.6%
Agent's phone
agent_phone
0 0.0%
Type of development
development_type
0 0.0%
Officer's recommendation
officer_recommendation
0 0.0%
Date received
received_date
0 0.0%

Not published by this council

Cornwall'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=105&limit=5"

Council id for Cornwall is 105. Full API reference for developers →

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