Surrey

Elmbridge planning data

10,906 planning applications from Elmbridge. 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. 16 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

10,906

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,184

Appeals

2021–2026

Date range

What Elmbridge decides

Elmbridge has approved 71.37% of the 8,244 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%).

71.37%

Approved, of 8,244 decided

Median days to a decision

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	3,709	34.0%
Other	1,853	17.0%
Tree	1,632	15.0%
Full	1,226	11.2%
Certificate	1,174	10.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Elmbridge 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 Elmbridge actually provides each one, across all 10,906 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 Elmbridge 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`	10,906	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	10,906	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	10,906	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	10,906	100.0%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	10,906	100.0%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	10,906	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	10,906	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	10,906	100.0%
Ward `ward`	10,889	99.8%
Status `status`	10,865	99.6%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	10,865	99.6%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	10,771	98.8%
Case officer `case_officer`	10,768	98.7%
Postcode `postcode`	10,753	98.6%
Decision `decision`	10,449	95.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	10,449	95.8%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	8,854	81.2%
Agent's name `agent_name`	8,761	80.3%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	8,585	78.7%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Elmbridge's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

Agent's company Agent's email Alternative reference Appeal decision Type of development Officer's recommendation

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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=81603&limit=5"

Council id for Elmbridge is 81603. Full API reference for developers →

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