West Yorkshire

Kirklees planning data

2,541 planning applications from Kirklees. 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. 10 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

2,541

Applications

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Enforcement notices

971

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Kirklees decides

Kirklees has approved 85.09% of the 1,831 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%).

85.09%

Approved, of 1,831 decided

Median days to a decision

73.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	2,541	100.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Kirklees 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 Kirklees actually provides each one, across all 2,541 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 Kirklees 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`	2,541	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,541	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,541	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,541	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,541	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,541	100.0%
Ward `ward`	2,541	100.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,530	99.6%
Postcode `postcode`	2,471	97.2%
Status `status`	2,335	91.9%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision date `decision_date`	2,262	89.0%
Decision `decision`	2,258	88.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,073	81.6%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,072	81.5%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,889	74.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	30	1.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	30	1.2%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Kirklees'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 Agent's phone Application type Who decided it (officer or committee) Type of development Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Officer's recommendation

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Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Kirklees 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=41&limit=5"

Council id for Kirklees is 41. Full API reference for developers →

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