West Yorkshire

Leeds planning data

25,934 planning applications from Leeds, available as JSON over REST or through the MCP server. 7 fields are populated on at least 90% of records.

25,934

Applications

Enforcement notices

2,533

Appeals

1974–2026

Date range

Field coverage

Measured across all 25,934 records. This is what is actually filled in, not what the council's portal offers — ask get_council_fields for the same numbers from an MCP client.

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Field	Populated	Coverage
`address`	25,934	100.0%
`description`	25,934	100.0%
`reference`	25,934	100.0%
`status`	25,934	100.0%
`status_normalized`	25,934	100.0%
`ward`	25,021	96.5%
`postcode`	24,267	93.6%

Partial — use with care

Field	Populated	Coverage
`applicant_name`	14,360	55.4%
`application_type`	14,374	55.4%
`decision_level`	14,360	55.4%
`decision_date`	12,702	49.0%
`agent_id`	11,706	45.1%
`agent_name`	11,706	45.1%
`decision`	10,277	39.6%
`decision_normalized`	10,172	39.2%
`standard_type`	6,498	25.1%
`agent_email`	6,414	24.7%
`agent_phone`	6,360	24.5%

Rarely or never published

Field	Populated	Coverage
`agent_company`	571	2.2%
`appeal_decision`	316	1.2%
`appeal_decision_normalized`	316	1.2%
`property_id`	119	0.5%
`alternative_reference`	0	0.0%
`case_officer`	0	0.0%
`development_type`	0	0.0%
`easting`	0	0.0%
`northing`	0	0.0%
`officer_id`	0	0.0%
`officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%
`received_date`	0	0.0%

Query it

curl -H "X-Api-Key: $KEY" \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=42&limit=5"

Council id for Leeds is 42. Full endpoint reference →

Get a key for Leeds data

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