Northumberland

Northumberland planning data

11,633 planning applications from Northumberland. 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. 5 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

11,633

Applications

Enforcement notices

731

Appeals

1984–2026

Date range

What Northumberland decides

Northumberland has approved 87.66% of the 1,734 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%).

87.66%

Approved, of 1,734 decided

Median days to a decision

92.7

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	9,574	82.3%
Full	909	7.8%
Conditions	385	3.3%
Amendment	252	2.2%
Tree	216	1.9%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Northumberland 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 Northumberland actually provides each one, across all 11,633 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 Northumberland 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`	11,633	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	11,633	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	11,633	100.0%
Status `status`	11,497	98.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	11,497	98.8%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	8,841	76.0%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	8,595	73.9%
Ward `ward`	4,497	38.7%
Date received `received_date`	3,309	28.4%
Application type `application_type`	2,547	21.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,544	21.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,546	21.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,510	21.6%
Agent's email `agent_email`	2,126	18.3%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	2,088	17.9%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,061	17.7%
Decision `decision`	2,056	17.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,063	17.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,818	15.6%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,693	14.6%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	721	6.2%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	28	0.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	28	0.2%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Northumberland'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

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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=69&limit=5"

Council id for Northumberland is 69. Full API reference for developers →

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