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Cotswold planning data

11,788 planning applications from Cotswold. 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. 15 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

11,788

Applications

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Enforcement notices

703

Appeals

1998–2026

Date range

What Cotswold decides

Cotswold has approved 92.79% of the 7,604 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%).

92.79%

Approved, of 7,604 decided

Median days to a decision

75.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	4,314	36.6%
Tree	3,159	26.8%
Other	2,415	20.5%
Listed building	1,305	11.1%
Amendment	290	2.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Cotswold 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 Cotswold actually provides each one, across all 11,788 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 Cotswold 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`	11,788	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	11,788	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	11,788	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	11,788	100.0%
Ward `ward`	11,787	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	11,781	99.9%
Status `status`	11,780	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	11,780	99.9%
Agent's email `agent_email`	11,751	99.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	11,511	97.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	11,507	97.6%
Decision `decision`	11,265	95.6%
Decision date `decision_date`	11,265	95.6%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	11,247	95.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	11,092	94.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	10,419	88.4%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	9,842	83.5%
Agent's name `agent_name`	9,552	81.0%
Agent's company `agent_company`	8,683	73.7%
Standardised type `standard_type`	4,678	39.7%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,767	23.5%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	137	1.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	137	1.2%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Cotswold'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=213&limit=5"

Council id for Cotswold is 213. Full API reference for developers →

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