Greater Manchester

Manchester planning data

13,157 planning applications from Manchester, available as JSON over REST or through the MCP server. 13 fields are populated on at least 90% of records.

13,157

Applications

Enforcement notices

1,236

Appeals

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Date range

Field coverage

Measured across all 13,157 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`	13,157	100.0%
`application_type`	13,157	100.0%
`case_officer`	13,155	100.0%
`decision_level`	13,155	100.0%
`description`	13,155	100.0%
`officer_id`	13,155	100.0%
`reference`	13,157	100.0%
`status`	13,157	100.0%
`ward`	13,155	100.0%
`status_normalized`	13,101	99.6%
`decision`	12,679	96.4%
`decision_normalized`	12,560	95.5%
`alternative_reference`	12,488	94.9%

Partial — use with care

Field	Populated	Coverage
`standard_type`	11,453	87.0%
`agent_id`	11,369	86.4%
`agent_name`	11,369	86.4%
`applicant_name`	10,704	81.4%

Rarely or never published

Field	Populated	Coverage
`postcode`	13	0.1%
`property_id`	9	0.1%
`agent_company`	0	0.0%
`agent_email`	0	0.0%
`agent_phone`	0	0.0%
`appeal_decision`	0	0.0%
`appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
`decision_date`	0	0.0%
`development_type`	0	0.0%
`easting`	0	0.0%
`northing`	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=3&limit=5"

Council id for Manchester is 3. Full endpoint reference →

Get a key for Manchester data

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