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Epping Forest planning data

8,973 planning applications from Epping Forest, available as JSON over REST or through the MCP server. 15 fields are populated on at least 90% of records.

8,973
Applications
Enforcement notices
1,386
Appeals
2021–2026
Date range

Field coverage

Measured across all 8,973 records. This is what is actually filled in, not what the council's portal offers — ask get_council_fields for the same numbers from an MCP client.

Reliable — 90% or more of records

FieldPopulated Coverage
address 8,973 100.0%
description 8,973 100.0%
received_date 8,973 100.0%
reference 8,973 100.0%
ward 8,972 100.0%
application_type 8,966 99.9%
status 8,968 99.9%
case_officer 8,956 99.8%
officer_id 8,956 99.8%
status_normalized 8,929 99.5%
postcode 8,739 97.4%
decision_level 8,622 96.1%
decision 8,333 92.9%
decision_normalized 8,275 92.2%
decision_date 8,097 90.2%

Partial — use with care

FieldPopulated Coverage
standard_type 4,052 45.2%

Rarely or never published

FieldPopulated Coverage
agent_company 0 0.0%
agent_email 0 0.0%
agent_id 0 0.0%
agent_name 0 0.0%
agent_phone 0 0.0%
alternative_reference 0 0.0%
appeal_decision 0 0.0%
appeal_decision_normalized 0 0.0%
applicant_name 0 0.0%
development_type 0 0.0%
easting 0 0.0%
northing 0 0.0%
officer_recommendation 0 0.0%
property_id 0 0.0%

Query it

curl -H "X-Api-Key: $KEY" \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=253&limit=5"

Council id for Epping Forest is 253. Full endpoint reference →

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