South Yorkshire

Rotherham planning data

5,465 planning applications from Rotherham. 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. 12 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

5,465

Applications

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Enforcement notices

399

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Rotherham decides

Rotherham has approved 88.98% of the 4,457 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%).

88.98%

Approved, of 4,457 decided

Median days to a decision

76.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	5,465	100.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Rotherham 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 Rotherham actually provides each one, across all 5,465 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 Rotherham 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`	5,465	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,465	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,465	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,461	99.9%
Description of the works `description`	5,459	99.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,450	99.7%
Status `status`	5,451	99.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,424	99.2%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,407	98.9%
Ward `ward`	5,323	97.4%
Decision `decision`	5,141	94.1%
Decision date `decision_date`	5,116	93.6%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,867	89.1%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,009	73.4%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	1,965	36.0%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Postcode `postcode`	2	0.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Rotherham'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 Appeal decision Application type 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=81388&limit=5"

Council id for Rotherham is 81388. Full API reference for developers →

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