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Medway planning data

7,281 planning applications from Medway. 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.

7,281

Applications

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Enforcement notices

674

Appeals

2004–2026

Date range

What Medway decides

Medway has approved 88.51% of the 5,076 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%).

88.51%

Approved, of 5,076 decided

Median days to a decision

76.1

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,916	26.3%
Full	1,506	20.7%
Conditions	1,158	15.9%
Tree	759	10.4%
Certificate	734	10.1%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Medway 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 Medway actually provides each one, across all 7,281 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 Medway 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`	7,281	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	7,281	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	7,281	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	7,281	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	7,273	99.9%
Ward `ward`	7,253	99.6%
Case officer `case_officer`	7,221	99.2%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	6,954	95.5%
Decision `decision`	6,869	94.3%
Decision date `decision_date`	6,869	94.3%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	6,862	94.2%
Postcode `postcode`	6,830	93.8%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	6,730	92.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	6,729	92.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	6,000	82.4%
Status `status`	5,872	80.6%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,872	80.6%
Agent's company `agent_company`	5,406	74.2%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,376	32.6%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's email `agent_email`	42	0.6%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Medway'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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Get this data

Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Medway 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=319&limit=5"

Council id for Medway is 319. Full API reference for developers →

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