North London

Hackney planning data

5,865 planning applications from Hackney. 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. 15 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

5,865

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,740

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Hackney decides

Hackney has approved 82.71% of the 4,187 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%).

82.71%

Approved, of 4,187 decided

Median days to a decision

110.1

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	1,659	28.3%
Tree	1,009	17.2%
Householder	956	16.3%
Conditions	765	13.0%
Certificate	486	8.3%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Hackney 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 Hackney actually provides each one, across all 5,865 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 Hackney 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`	5,865	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	5,865	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,863	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,865	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,863	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,865	100.0%
Ward `ward`	5,865	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,857	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,853	99.8%
Postcode `postcode`	5,716	97.5%
Status `status`	5,719	97.5%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,664	96.6%
Decision `decision`	5,382	91.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	5,378	91.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	5,359	91.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	5,133	87.5%
Agent's company `agent_company`	4,798	81.8%
Standardised type `standard_type`	3,941	67.2%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	3,230	55.1%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	3,230	55.1%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	187	3.2%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	176	3.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	176	3.0%
Agent's email `agent_email`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Hackney'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 Type of development Officer's recommendation

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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 Hackney 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=125&limit=5"

Council id for Hackney is 125. Full API reference for developers →

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