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Mendip planning data

6,858 planning applications from Mendip. 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. 16 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

6,858

Applications

145

Enforcement notices

153

Appeals

1975–2026

Date range

What Mendip decides

Mendip has approved 89.14% of the 5,684 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%).

89.14%

Approved, of 5,684 decided

Median days to a decision

107.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,433	20.9%
Full	1,405	20.5%
Tree	985	14.4%
Conditions	901	13.1%
Other	741	10.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Mendip 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 Mendip actually provides each one, across all 6,858 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 Mendip 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`	6,858	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	6,858	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	6,858	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	6,858	100.0%
Ward `ward`	6,852	99.9%
Application type `application_type`	6,843	99.8%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	6,803	99.2%
Agent's email `agent_email`	6,771	98.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	6,757	98.5%
Status `status`	6,465	94.3%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	6,465	94.3%
Decision `decision`	6,394	93.2%
Decision date `decision_date`	6,394	93.2%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	6,364	92.8%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	6,281	91.6%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	6,280	91.6%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	5,620	81.9%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	5,601	81.7%
Postcode `postcode`	5,515	80.4%
Agent's company `agent_company`	5,366	78.2%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,007	29.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	148	2.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	148	2.2%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Mendip'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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Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Mendip 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=321&limit=5"

Council id for Mendip is 321. Full API reference for developers →

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