Lancashire

Preston planning data

2,047 planning applications from Preston. 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. 10 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

2,047

Applications

Enforcement notices

213

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Preston decides

Preston has approved 92.45% of the 1,271 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%).

92.45%

Approved, of 1,271 decided

Median days to a decision

62.9

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	676	33.0%
Conditions	362	17.7%
Amendment	249	12.2%
Other	200	9.8%
Tree	180	8.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Preston 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 Preston actually provides each one, across all 2,047 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 Preston 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`	2,047	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,047	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,047	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,047	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,044	99.9%
Application type `application_type`	2,044	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,044	99.9%
Ward `ward`	2,026	99.0%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,912	93.4%
Postcode `postcode`	1,869	91.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision `decision`	1,777	86.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,776	86.8%
Status `status`	1,777	86.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	1,769	86.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,760	86.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,471	71.9%
Agent's company `agent_company`	210	10.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	20	1.0%

Not published by this council

Preston'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 email Agent's phone Alternative reference Appeal decision Who decided it (officer or committee) Type of development Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Officer's recommendation

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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=24&limit=5"

Council id for Preston is 24. Full API reference for developers →

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