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Maldon planning data

4,141 planning applications from Maldon. 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. 14 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

4,141

Applications

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Enforcement notices

2,457

Appeals

1996–2026

Date range

What Maldon decides

Maldon has approved 79.4% of the 3,146 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%).

79.4%

Approved, of 3,146 decided

Median days to a decision

88.1

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	1,116	27.0%
Householder	892	21.5%
Full	800	19.3%
Tree	601	14.5%
Amendment	273	6.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Maldon 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 Maldon actually provides each one, across all 4,141 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 Maldon 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`	4,141	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	4,141	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	4,141	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,141	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	4,138	99.9%
Status `status`	4,137	99.9%
Ward `ward`	4,136	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,132	99.8%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,118	99.4%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,105	99.1%
Decision `decision`	3,864	93.3%
Decision date `decision_date`	3,864	93.3%
Agent's email `agent_email`	3,815	92.1%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	3,780	91.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	3,717	89.8%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	3,658	88.3%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,297	79.6%
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,294	79.5%
Postcode `postcode`	2,743	66.2%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,452	35.1%
Agent's company `agent_company`	573	13.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	163	3.9%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	163	3.9%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Maldon'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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curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=316&limit=5"

Council id for Maldon is 316. Full API reference for developers →

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