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Rochdale planning data

4,437 planning applications from Rochdale. 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.

4,437

Applications

123

Enforcement notices

665

Appeals

1980–2026

Date range

What Rochdale decides

Rochdale has approved 85.16% of the 3,429 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%).

85.16%

Approved, of 3,429 decided

Decision times can't be measured here — Rochdale 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 Rochdale handles — useful for telling whether your kind of application is routine here or unusual.

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,310	29.5%
Full	828	18.7%
Conditions	707	15.9%
Other	461	10.4%
Certificate	422	9.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Rochdale 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 Rochdale actually provides each one, across all 4,437 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 Rochdale 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`	4,437	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,437	100.0%
Address `address`	4,426	99.8%
Status `status`	4,423	99.7%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,413	99.5%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	4,214	95.0%
Application type `application_type`	4,215	95.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,216	95.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,211	94.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,170	94.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,167	93.9%
Decision `decision`	4,165	93.9%
Ward `ward`	4,149	93.5%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,090	92.2%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	3,846	86.7%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,644	82.1%
Standardised type `standard_type`	3,107	70.0%

Rarely or never published

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

Not published by this council

Rochdale'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 phone Appeal decision Type of development Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Officer's recommendation Date received

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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=5&limit=5"

Council id for Rochdale is 5. Full API reference for developers →

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