West Sussex

Crawley planning data

2,715 planning applications from Crawley. 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.

2,715

Applications

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Enforcement notices

302

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Crawley decides

Crawley has approved 86.85% of the 1,840 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%).

86.85%

Approved, of 1,840 decided

Median days to a decision

103.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	892	32.9%
Other	729	26.9%
Tree	649	23.9%
Certificate	270	9.9%
Advertisement	102	3.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Crawley 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 Crawley actually provides each one, across all 2,715 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 Crawley 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`	2,714	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,714	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,714	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,715	100.0%
Status `status`	2,714	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,711	99.9%
Description of the works `description`	2,713	99.9%
Application type `application_type`	2,690	99.1%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,646	97.5%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,634	97.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,611	96.2%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision `decision`	2,396	88.3%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,389	88.0%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,330	85.8%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,072	76.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	215	7.9%
Ward `ward`	195	7.2%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	59	2.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	59	2.2%
Agent's company `agent_company`	9	0.3%
Agent's email `agent_email`	3	0.1%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Crawley'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 Alternative reference 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 Crawley 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=214&limit=5"

Council id for Crawley is 214. Full API reference for developers →

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