West Midlands

Dudley planning data

683 planning applications from Dudley. 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. 13 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

683

Applications

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Enforcement notices

410

Appeals

2024–2026

Date range

What Dudley decides

Dudley has approved 83.75% of the 363 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%).

83.75%

Approved, of 363 decided

Median days to a decision

86.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	393	57.5%
Tree	88	12.9%
Conditions	75	11.0%
Certificate	35	5.1%
Other	29	4.2%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Dudley 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 Dudley actually provides each one, across all 683 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 Dudley 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`	683	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	683	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	683	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	683	100.0%
Status `status`	683	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	681	99.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	680	99.6%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	680	99.6%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	670	98.1%
Ward `ward`	670	98.1%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	668	97.8%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	668	97.8%
Postcode `postcode`	628	91.9%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's email `agent_email`	560	82.0%
Agent's name `agent_name`	554	81.1%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	540	79.1%
Type of development `development_type`	498	72.9%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	492	72.0%
Decision `decision`	377	55.2%
Decision date `decision_date`	377	55.2%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	376	55.1%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	375	54.9%
Standardised type `standard_type`	368	53.9%
Agent's company `agent_company`	268	39.2%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Dudley's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

Officer's recommendation

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Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Dudley 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=79&limit=5"

Council id for Dudley is 79. Full API reference for developers →

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