Gloucestershire

Forest of Dean planning data

3,884 planning applications from Forest of Dean. 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.

3,884

Applications

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Enforcement notices

556

Appeals

1992–2026

Date range

What Forest of Dean decides

Forest of Dean has approved 91.56% of the 3,294 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%).

91.56%

Approved, of 3,294 decided

Median days to a decision

94.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	2,174	56.0%
Tree	480	12.4%
Conditions	423	10.9%
Other	421	10.8%
Listed building	185	4.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Forest of Dean 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 Forest of Dean actually provides each one, across all 3,884 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 Forest of Dean 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`	3,884	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	3,884	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	3,884	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	3,884	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	3,884	100.0%
Ward `ward`	3,883	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	3,868	99.6%
Case officer `case_officer`	3,863	99.5%
Agent's email `agent_email`	3,841	98.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	3,821	98.4%
Status `status`	3,724	95.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	3,724	95.9%
Decision `decision`	3,644	93.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	3,644	93.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,634	93.6%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	3,547	91.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	3,473	89.4%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	3,175	81.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,045	78.4%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,483	38.2%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	74	1.9%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	74	1.9%
Agent's company `agent_company`	69	1.8%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Forest of Dean'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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Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

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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=265&limit=5"

Council id for Forest of Dean is 265. Full API reference for developers →

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