Surrey

Guildford planning data

11,193 planning applications from Guildford. 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.

11,193

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,750

Appeals

1981–2026

Date range

What Guildford decides

Guildford has approved 83.27% of the 9,610 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%).

83.27%

Approved, of 9,610 decided

Median days to a decision

98.2

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	5,412	48.4%
Conditions	1,721	15.4%
Tree	1,184	10.6%
Certificate	1,071	9.6%
Other	743	6.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Guildford 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 Guildford actually provides each one, across all 11,193 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 Guildford 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`	11,193	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	11,193	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	11,193	100.0%
Status `status`	11,193	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	11,179	99.9%
Date received `received_date`	11,180	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	11,187	99.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	11,087	99.1%
Case officer `case_officer`	11,052	98.7%
Ward `ward`	10,980	98.1%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	10,963	97.9%
Postcode `postcode`	10,533	94.1%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	10,246	91.5%
Decision date `decision_date`	10,196	91.1%
Decision `decision`	10,184	91.0%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	10,077	90.0%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	8,929	79.8%
Agent's company `agent_company`	8,358	74.7%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,661	23.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	261	2.3%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	261	2.3%
Agent's email `agent_email`	70	0.6%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Guildford'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

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Guildford 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=277&limit=5"

Council id for Guildford is 277. Full API reference for developers →

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