Devon

North Devon planning data

5,189 planning applications from North Devon. 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.

5,189

Applications

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Enforcement notices

421

Appeals

2019–2026

Date range

What North Devon decides

North Devon has approved 95.95% of the 4,595 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%).

95.95%

Approved, of 4,595 decided

Median days to a decision

94.9

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	2,564	49.4%
Other	728	14.0%
Tree	494	9.5%
Amendment	455	8.8%
Conditions	394	7.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What North Devon 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 North Devon actually provides each one, across all 5,189 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 North Devon actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Council reference `reference`	5,189	100.0%
Address `address`	5,185	99.9%
Agent's name `agent_name`	5,185	99.9%
Application type `application_type`	5,185	99.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,185	99.9%
Description of the works `description`	5,185	99.9%
Date received `received_date`	5,185	99.9%
Status `status`	5,185	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,179	99.8%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,175	99.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,171	99.7%
Ward `ward`	5,174	99.7%
Decision `decision`	4,936	95.1%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,937	95.1%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,926	94.9%
Postcode `postcode`	4,811	92.7%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,107	40.6%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	54	1.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	54	1.0%
Agent's company `agent_company`	0	0.0%
Agent's email `agent_email`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

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

Agent's phone Alternative reference Type of development Officer's recommendation

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Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=345&limit=5"

Council id for North Devon is 345. Full API reference for developers →

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