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Dumfries planning data

7,881 planning applications from Dumfries. 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. 9 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

7,881

Applications

Enforcement notices

Appeals

1989–2026

Date range

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What Dumfries decides

Dumfries has approved 95.29% of the 4,610 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%).

95.29%

Approved, of 4,610 decided

Median days to a decision

84.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	3,641	46.2%
Other	2,735	34.7%
Listed building	595	7.5%
Conditions	376	4.8%
Amendment	272	3.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Dumfries 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 Dumfries actually provides each one, across all 7,881 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 Dumfries 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`	7,881	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	7,881	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	7,881	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	7,674	97.4%
Date received `received_date`	7,677	97.4%
Ward `ward`	7,471	94.8%
Status `status`	7,396	93.8%
Case officer `case_officer`	7,338	93.1%
Decision date `decision_date`	7,113	90.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision `decision`	7,056	89.5%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	6,959	88.3%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	6,829	86.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	6,338	80.4%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	6,062	76.9%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	5,244	66.5%
Postcode `postcode`	5,182	65.8%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,096	52.0%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,247	41.2%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,404	17.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	21	0.3%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	21	0.3%
Agent's email `agent_email`	5	0.1%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Dumfries'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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Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Dumfries 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=229&limit=5"

Council id for Dumfries is 229. Full API reference for developers →

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