Suffolk

East Suffolk planning data

8,586 planning applications from East Suffolk. 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. 5 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

8,586

Applications

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Enforcement notices

793

Appeals

1900–2026

Date range

What East Suffolk decides

East Suffolk has approved 94.21% of the 1,398 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%).

94.21%

Approved, of 1,398 decided

Median days to a decision

230.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	6,380	74.3%
Full	1,001	11.7%
Conditions	369	4.3%
Tree	338	3.9%
Amendment	242	2.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What East Suffolk 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 Suffolk actually provides each one, across all 8,586 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 Suffolk 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`	8,586	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	8,586	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	8,586	100.0%
Status `status`	8,526	99.3%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	8,526	99.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	6,924	80.6%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	6,411	74.7%
Ward `ward`	6,115	71.2%
Date received `received_date`	2,600	30.3%
Application type `application_type`	2,591	30.2%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,554	29.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,500	29.1%
Agent's email `agent_email`	1,968	22.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,808	21.1%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,782	20.8%
Decision `decision`	1,790	20.8%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,550	18.1%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	1,361	15.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	1,189	13.8%
Standardised type `standard_type`	912	10.6%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	18	0.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	18	0.2%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	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 Suffolk'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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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=247&limit=5"

Council id for East Suffolk is 247. Full API reference for developers →

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