Essex

Essex planning data

1,265 planning applications from Essex. 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. 12 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

1,265

Applications

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Enforcement notices

Appeals

2015–2026

Date range

What Essex decides

Essex has approved 97.36% of the 1,060 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%).

97.36%

Approved, of 1,060 decided

Median days to a decision

78.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	941	74.4%
Amendment	182	14.4%
Full	141	11.1%
Listed building	1	0.1%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Essex 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 Essex actually provides each one, across all 1,265 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 Essex 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`	1,265	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	1,265	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	1,265	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	1,265	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	1,264	99.9%
Description of the works `description`	1,264	99.9%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,263	99.8%
Status `status`	1,262	99.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	1,261	99.7%
Decision `decision`	1,240	98.0%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,193	94.3%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,183	93.5%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,101	87.0%
Postcode `postcode`	1,020	80.6%
Ward `ward`	951	75.2%
Standardised type `standard_type`	500	39.5%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	10	0.8%
Agent's email `agent_email`	6	0.5%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Essex'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 phone Alternative reference Type of development 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 Essex 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=255&limit=5"

Council id for Essex is 255. Full API reference for developers →

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