Cambridgeshire

East Cambridgeshire planning data

5,265 planning applications from East Cambridgeshire. 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. 6 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

5,265

Applications

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Enforcement notices

401

Appeals

2001–2026

Date range

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What East Cambridgeshire decides

East Cambridgeshire has approved 94.12% of the 391 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%).

94.12%

Approved, of 391 decided

Median days to a decision

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	4,360	82.8%
Full	315	6.0%
Tree	230	4.4%
Conditions	178	3.4%
Amendment	74	1.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What East Cambridgeshire 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 East Cambridgeshire actually provides each one, across all 5,265 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 East Cambridgeshire 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`	5,265	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,265	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,265	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,265	100.0%
Status `status`	5,261	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,261	99.9%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Ward `ward`	4,508	85.6%
Postcode `postcode`	4,345	82.5%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,931	55.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	951	18.1%
Application type `application_type`	953	18.1%
Case officer `case_officer`	949	18.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	826	15.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	733	13.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	577	11.0%
Decision `decision`	559	10.6%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	460	8.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	454	8.6%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	450	8.5%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	265	5.0%
Agent's company `agent_company`	20	0.4%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	2	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	2	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

East Cambridgeshire'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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Get this data

Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in East Cambridgeshire 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=234&limit=5"

Council id for East Cambridgeshire is 234. Full API reference for developers →

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