Staffordshire

Lichfield planning data

3,179 planning applications from Lichfield. 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.

3,179

Applications

Enforcement notices

3,413

Appeals

2004–2026

Date range

What Lichfield decides

Lichfield has approved 84.32% of the 2,876 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%).

84.32%

Approved, of 2,876 decided

Median days to a decision

95.4

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,347	42.4%
Full	604	19.0%
Other	520	16.4%
Certificate	273	8.6%
Listed building	236	7.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Lichfield 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 Lichfield actually provides each one, across all 3,179 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 Lichfield 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`	3,179	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	3,178	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	3,178	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	3,179	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	3,179	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	3,179	100.0%
Ward `ward`	3,178	100.0%
Status `status`	3,157	99.3%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	3,157	99.3%
Agent's email `agent_email`	3,105	97.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	3,041	95.7%
Decision `decision`	3,033	95.4%
Decision date `decision_date`	3,033	95.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,004	94.5%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	3,001	94.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	2,849	89.6%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,665	83.8%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	2,613	82.2%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,069	65.1%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	238	7.5%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	71	2.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	71	2.2%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Lichfield'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 Lichfield 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=308&limit=5"

Council id for Lichfield is 308. Full API reference for developers →

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