Lincolnshire

North Lincs planning data

4,146 planning applications from North Lincs. 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. 8 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

4,146

Applications

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Enforcement notices

420

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

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What North Lincs decides

North Lincs has approved 89.38% of the 3,305 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%).

89.38%

Approved, of 3,305 decided

Decision times can't be measured here — North Lincs doesn't publish both a received and a decision date on enough records. The nationwide range across councils that do is 31 to 299 days.

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	3,466	83.6%
Householder	224	5.4%
Full	198	4.8%
Tree	101	2.4%
Amendment	80	1.9%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What North Lincs 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 Lincs actually provides each one, across all 4,146 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 Lincs actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Description of the works `description`	4,146	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,146	100.0%
Status `status`	4,146	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,146	100.0%
Address `address`	4,142	99.9%
Postcode `postcode`	3,853	92.9%
Decision `decision`	3,752	90.5%
Decision date `decision_date`	3,752	90.5%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,693	89.1%
Case officer `case_officer`	803	19.4%
Application type `application_type`	802	19.3%
Ward `ward`	799	19.3%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	647	15.6%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	647	15.6%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

North Lincs'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 company Agent's email Agent's name Agent's phone Alternative reference Appeal decision Applicant's name Who decided it (officer or committee) Type of development Officer's recommendation Date received

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 North Lincs 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=81702&limit=5"

Council id for North Lincs is 81702. Full API reference for developers →

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