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Rochford planning data

2,988 planning applications from Rochford. 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. 9 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

2,988

Applications

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Enforcement notices

469

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Rochford decides

Rochford has approved 80.47% of the 2,274 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%).

80.47%

Approved, of 2,274 decided

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	1,737	58.1%
Conditions	361	12.1%
Certificate	298	10.0%
Other	296	9.9%
Householder	121	4.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Rochford 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 Rochford actually provides each one, across all 2,988 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 Rochford 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`	2,988	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,988	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,988	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,988	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,884	96.5%
Status `status`	2,884	96.5%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,881	96.4%
Ward `ward`	2,879	96.4%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,780	93.0%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision `decision`	2,658	89.0%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,652	88.8%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,547	85.2%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,407	80.6%
Postcode `postcode`	2,316	77.5%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	109	3.6%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	109	3.6%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Rochford'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 Applicant's name Decision date Type of development Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Officer's recommendation

Get this data

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Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Rochford 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=81733&limit=5"

Council id for Rochford is 81733. Full API reference for developers →

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