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Lewisham planning data

10,464 planning applications from Lewisham. 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. 5 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

10,464

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,379

Appeals

2015–2026

Date range

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What Lewisham decides

Lewisham has approved 83.72% of the 4,354 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%).

83.72%

Approved, of 4,354 decided

Median days to a decision

64.5

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	5,047	48.2%
Full	2,047	19.6%
Householder	1,381	13.2%
Certificate	779	7.4%
Tree	752	7.2%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Lewisham 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 Lewisham actually provides each one, across all 10,464 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 Lewisham 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`	10,464	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	10,464	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	10,464	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	10,464	100.0%
Postcode `postcode`	10,061	96.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Status `status`	7,972	76.2%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	7,972	76.2%
Ward `ward`	6,824	65.2%
Application type `application_type`	5,867	56.1%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,805	55.5%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,629	53.8%
Decision `decision`	5,354	51.2%
Decision date `decision_date`	5,359	51.2%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	5,265	50.3%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,026	48.0%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	5,013	47.9%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,741	45.3%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	4,695	44.9%
Agent's email `agent_email`	4,688	44.8%
Agent's company `agent_company`	4,422	42.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	170	1.6%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	75	0.7%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	75	0.7%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Lewisham'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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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=118&limit=5"

Council id for Lewisham is 118. Full API reference for developers →

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