Hertfordshire

East Hertfordshire planning data

20,729 planning applications from East Hertfordshire. 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.

20,729

Applications

204

Enforcement notices

8,511

Appeals

1972–2026

Date range

What East Hertfordshire decides

East Hertfordshire has approved 77.03% of the 17,003 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%).

77.03%

Approved, of 17,003 decided

Median days to a decision

42.4

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	6,500	31.4%
Householder	5,093	24.6%
Other	3,141	15.2%
Listed building	2,280	11.0%
Conditions	2,082	10.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What East Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire actually provides each one, across all 20,729 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 Hertfordshire 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`	20,729	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	20,729	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	20,729	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	20,729	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	20,718	99.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	20,446	98.6%
Status `status`	20,299	97.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	20,299	97.9%
Decision `decision`	19,976	96.4%
Decision date `decision_date`	19,979	96.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	19,932	96.2%
Ward `ward`	19,334	93.3%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	19,153	92.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Case officer `case_officer`	18,392	88.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	17,079	82.4%
Postcode `postcode`	15,636	75.4%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	13,291	64.1%
Agent's email `agent_email`	8,961	43.2%
Agent's company `agent_company`	6,816	32.9%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	5,988	28.9%
Standardised type `standard_type`	5,212	25.1%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	990	4.8%
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

East Hertfordshire'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

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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=239&limit=5"

Council id for East Hertfordshire is 239. Full API reference for developers →

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