Merseyside

Liverpool planning data

6,029 planning applications from Liverpool. 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. 11 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

6,029

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,189

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Liverpool decides

Liverpool has approved 79.14% of the 4,512 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%).

79.14%

Approved, of 4,512 decided

Median days to a decision

117.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	1,891	31.4%
Other	1,423	23.6%
Certificate	840	13.9%
Tree	570	9.5%
Listed building	395	6.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Liverpool 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 Liverpool actually provides each one, across all 6,029 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 Liverpool 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`	6,029	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	6,029	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	6,029	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	6,029	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	6,029	100.0%
Status `status`	6,018	99.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	6,018	99.8%
Case officer `case_officer`	6,011	99.7%
Ward `ward`	5,994	99.4%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,977	99.1%
Postcode `postcode`	5,852	97.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision `decision`	5,358	88.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	5,361	88.9%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	5,318	88.2%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,171	85.8%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,785	79.4%
Agent's company `agent_company`	4,169	69.1%
Standardised type `standard_type`	3,340	55.4%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	1,925	31.9%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	1,925	31.9%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	227	3.8%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	203	3.4%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	203	3.4%
Agent's email `agent_email`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Liverpool'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 phone Type of development Officer's recommendation

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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 Liverpool 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=12&limit=5"

Council id for Liverpool is 12. Full API reference for developers →

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