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Harlow planning data

2,110 planning applications from Harlow. 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. 8 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

2,110

Applications

109

Enforcement notices

256

Appeals

1990–2026

Date range

What Harlow decides

Harlow has approved 88.09% of the 1,629 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%).

88.09%

Approved, of 1,629 decided

Median days to a decision

75.2

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	580	27.5%
Full	436	20.7%
Conditions	304	14.4%
Certificate	196	9.3%
Tree	185	8.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Harlow 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 Harlow actually provides each one, across all 2,110 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 Harlow 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`	2,110	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,110	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,110	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,110	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,110	100.0%
Decision `decision`	2,002	94.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,002	94.9%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,971	93.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	1,860	88.2%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,861	88.2%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	1,854	87.9%
Agent's email `agent_email`	1,845	87.4%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,700	80.6%
Postcode `postcode`	1,642	77.8%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,553	73.6%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	1,541	73.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	1,506	71.4%
Ward `ward`	1,261	59.8%
Standardised type `standard_type`	217	10.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Status `status`	20	0.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	20	0.9%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Harlow'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 Harlow 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=281&limit=5"

Council id for Harlow is 281. Full API reference for developers →

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