Lancashire

Lancaster planning data

5,464 planning applications from Lancaster. 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. 15 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

5,464

Applications

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Enforcement notices

601

Appeals

1995–2026

Date range

What Lancaster decides

Lancaster has approved 87.05% of the 4,578 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%).

87.05%

Approved, of 4,578 decided

Median days to a decision

84.9

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	2,074	38.0%
Other	1,194	21.9%
Tree	791	14.5%
Certificate	465	8.5%
Amendment	381	7.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Lancaster 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 Lancaster actually provides each one, across all 5,464 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 Lancaster 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`	5,464	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,464	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,463	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,464	100.0%
Ward `ward`	5,464	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	5,456	99.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,453	99.8%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,440	99.6%
Agent's email `agent_email`	5,425	99.3%
Decision `decision`	5,204	95.2%
Decision date `decision_date`	5,204	95.2%
Status `status`	5,196	95.1%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,196	95.1%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,094	93.2%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	5,087	93.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	4,560	83.5%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	4,459	81.6%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,411	80.7%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	3,877	71.0%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,774	69.1%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,181	21.6%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	90	1.6%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	90	1.6%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Lancaster'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 Lancaster 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=22&limit=5"

Council id for Lancaster is 22. Full API reference for developers →

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