County Durham

Durham planning data

328 planning applications from Durham, available as JSON over REST or through the MCP server. 8 fields are populated on at least 90% of records.

328

Applications

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Enforcement notices

283

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

Limited data for this council.

We hold only 328 applications here. Treat an absent record as "not published to us", never as "no such application".

Field coverage

Measured across all 328 records. This is what is actually filled in, not what the council's portal offers — ask get_council_fields for the same numbers from an MCP client.

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Field	Populated	Coverage
`address`	328	100.0%
`description`	328	100.0%
`received_date`	328	100.0%
`reference`	328	100.0%
`status`	328	100.0%
`status_normalized`	328	100.0%
`ward`	326	99.4%
`postcode`	315	96.0%

Partial — use with care

Field	Populated	Coverage
`application_type`	284	86.6%
`case_officer`	284	86.6%
`officer_id`	284	86.6%
`standard_type`	284	86.6%
`agent_email`	283	86.3%
`applicant_name`	282	86.0%
`decision_level`	244	74.4%
`alternative_reference`	231	70.4%
`agent_id`	192	58.5%
`agent_name`	192	58.5%
`agent_company`	186	56.7%
`property_id`	86	26.2%
`decision_date`	55	16.8%
`decision`	41	12.5%
`decision_normalized`	41	12.5%

Rarely or never published

Field	Populated	Coverage
`agent_phone`	0	0.0%
`appeal_decision`	0	0.0%
`appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
`development_type`	0	0.0%
`easting`	0	0.0%
`northing`	0	0.0%
`officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Query it

curl -H "X-Api-Key: $KEY" \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=231&limit=5"

Council id for Durham is 231. Full endpoint reference →

Get a key for Durham data

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