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Epping Forest planning data

9,372 planning applications from Epping Forest. 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. 14 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

9,372

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,386

Appeals

2021–2026

Date range

What Epping Forest decides

Epping Forest has approved 73.62% of the 6,983 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%).

73.62%

Approved, of 6,983 decided

Median days to a decision

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	2,902	31.0%
Full	1,353	14.4%
Conditions	1,329	14.2%
Certificate	1,173	12.5%
Tree	883	9.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Epping Forest 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 Epping Forest actually provides each one, across all 9,372 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 Epping Forest 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`	9,372	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	9,372	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	9,372	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	9,372	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	9,363	99.9%
Status `status`	9,365	99.9%
Ward `ward`	9,366	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	9,351	99.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	9,328	99.5%
Postcode `postcode`	9,130	97.4%
Decision `decision`	8,951	95.5%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	8,941	95.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	8,890	94.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	8,691	92.7%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	4,052	43.2%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	0	0.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Epping Forest'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 Agent's phone Appeal decision Type of development Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Officer's recommendation

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 Epping Forest 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=253&limit=5"

Council id for Epping Forest is 253. Full API reference for developers →

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