Lancashire

Hyndburn planning data

1,879 planning applications from Hyndburn. 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. 13 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

1,879

Applications

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Enforcement notices

117

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Hyndburn decides

Hyndburn has approved 85.18% of the 1,538 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%).

85.18%

Approved, of 1,538 decided

Median days to a decision

62.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	915	48.7%
Conditions	267	14.2%
Householder	167	8.9%
Tree	149	7.9%
Other	141	7.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Hyndburn 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 Hyndburn actually provides each one, across all 1,879 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 Hyndburn 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`	1,879	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	1,879	100.0%
Status `status`	1,879	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	1,879	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,876	99.8%
Application type `application_type`	1,874	99.7%
Description of the works `description`	1,867	99.4%
Case officer `case_officer`	1,866	99.3%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	1,816	96.6%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	1,816	96.6%
Date received `received_date`	1,801	95.8%
Postcode `postcode`	1,789	95.2%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,714	91.2%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision `decision`	1,689	89.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,689	89.9%
Ward `ward`	1,687	89.8%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,538	81.9%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	0	0.0%
Agent's name `agent_name`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Hyndburn'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 email Agent's phone Alternative reference Appeal decision Who decided it (officer or committee) Type of development Officer's recommendation

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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=21&limit=5"

Council id for Hyndburn is 21. Full API reference for developers →

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