Leicestershire

Melton planning data

2,997 planning applications from Melton. 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.

2,997

Applications

—

Enforcement notices

3,692

Appeals

2000–2026

Date range

What Melton decides

Melton has approved 95.05% of the 2,467 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 at or above the middle of the pack (89.18%).

95.05%

Approved, of 2,467 decided

Median days to a decision

136.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Tree	742	24.8%
Householder	565	18.9%
Full	543	18.1%
Other	338	11.3%
Conditions	265	8.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Melton 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 Melton actually provides each one, across all 2,997 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 Melton 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`	2,997	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,997	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,997	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,997	100.0%
Ward `ward`	2,992	99.8%
Application type `application_type`	2,984	99.6%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,978	99.4%
Agent's email `agent_email`	2,962	98.8%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,946	98.3%
Decision `decision`	2,773	92.5%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,773	92.5%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,688	89.7%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,661	88.8%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	2,625	87.6%
Postcode `postcode`	2,386	79.6%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,177	72.6%
Agent's company `agent_company`	2,008	67.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	1,800	60.1%
Status `status`	1,602	53.5%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	1,602	53.5%
Standardised type `standard_type`	820	27.4%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
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

Melton's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing)

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 Melton 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=320&limit=5"

Council id for Melton is 320. Full API reference for developers →

Get free access to Melton data

500 lookups a month, free. No card, no password — we email you a sign-in link and you're in.