Somerset

North Somerset planning data

8,600 planning applications from North Somerset. 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.

8,600

Applications

Enforcement notices

2,882

Appeals

1900–2026

Date range

What North Somerset decides

North Somerset has approved 88.37% of the 6,417 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%).

88.37%

Approved, of 6,417 decided

Median days to a decision

116.4

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	2,715	31.6%
Householder	2,211	25.7%
Full	1,493	17.4%
Tree	900	10.5%
Certificate	475	5.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What North Somerset 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 Somerset actually provides each one, across all 8,600 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 Somerset 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`	8,600	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	8,600	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	8,600	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	8,600	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	8,590	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	8,571	99.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	8,554	99.5%
Ward `ward`	8,513	99.0%
Status `status`	8,485	98.7%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	8,485	98.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	8,251	95.9%
Decision `decision`	8,138	94.6%
Decision date `decision_date`	8,138	94.6%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	8,051	93.6%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	7,716	89.7%
Agent's company `agent_company`	7,344	85.4%
Postcode `postcode`	7,062	82.1%
Agent's name `agent_name`	6,666	77.5%
Standardised type `standard_type`	4,392	51.1%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	147	1.7%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	147	1.7%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

North Somerset'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 North Somerset 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=106&limit=5"

Council id for North Somerset is 106. Full API reference for developers →

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