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Ipswich planning data

2,839 planning applications from Ipswich. 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.

2,839

Applications

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Enforcement notices

199

Appeals

2019–2026

Date range

What Ipswich decides

Ipswich has approved 90.53% of the 2,419 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%).

90.53%

Approved, of 2,419 decided

Median days to a decision

76.4

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	1,192	42.0%
Other	708	24.9%
Tree	483	17.0%
Amendment	220	7.7%
Listed building	128	4.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Ipswich 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 Ipswich actually provides each one, across all 2,839 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 Ipswich 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`	2,839	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,839	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,839	100.0%
Status `status`	2,839	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,837	99.9%
Application type `application_type`	2,837	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,837	99.9%
Date received `received_date`	2,837	99.9%
Ward `ward`	2,837	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,831	99.7%
Decision `decision`	2,615	92.1%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,613	92.0%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,607	91.8%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,308	81.3%
Postcode `postcode`	2,033	71.6%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	36	1.3%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	36	1.3%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Ipswich'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 company Agent's email Alternative reference Who decided it (officer or committee) Type of development Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) 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=81647&limit=5"

Council id for Ipswich is 81647. Full API reference for developers →

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