Cheshire

Halton planning data

1,915 planning applications from Halton. 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.

1,915

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,562

Appeals

2005–2026

Date range

What Halton decides

Halton has approved 95.72% of the 1,380 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%).

95.72%

Approved, of 1,380 decided

Median days to a decision

112.2

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	837	43.7%
Other	498	26.0%
Certificate	146	7.6%
Tree	136	7.1%
Amendment	113	5.9%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Halton 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 Halton actually provides each one, across all 1,915 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 Halton 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`	1,915	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	1,915	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	1,915	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	1,915	100.0%
Status `status`	1,915	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	1,915	100.0%
Ward `ward`	1,910	99.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,907	99.6%
Application type `application_type`	1,906	99.5%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	1,865	97.4%
Decision `decision`	1,759	91.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,759	91.9%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Case officer `case_officer`	1,670	87.2%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	1,622	84.7%
Postcode `postcode`	1,602	83.7%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,561	81.5%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,487	77.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	1,479	77.2%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	1,473	76.9%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,248	65.2%
Standardised type `standard_type`	207	10.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	20	1.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	20	1.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Halton'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=32&limit=5"

Council id for Halton is 32. Full API reference for developers →

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