Greater Manchester

Salford planning data

6,376 planning applications from Salford. 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. 13 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

6,376

Applications

Enforcement notices

488

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Salford decides

Salford has approved 86.47% of the 4,058 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%).

86.47%

Approved, of 4,058 decided

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Conditions	1,586	24.9%
Householder	1,539	24.1%
Full	960	15.1%
Certificate	546	8.6%
Tree	502	7.9%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Salford 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 Salford actually provides each one, across all 6,376 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 Salford 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`	6,374	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	6,376	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	6,376	100.0%
Status `status`	6,376	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	6,374	100.0%
Ward `ward`	6,375	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	6,363	99.8%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	6,196	97.2%
Agent's name `agent_name`	6,134	96.2%
Decision date `decision_date`	6,016	94.4%
Decision `decision`	5,998	94.1%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,993	94.0%
Postcode `postcode`	5,778	90.6%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	5,259	82.5%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,483	70.3%
Case officer `case_officer`	857	13.4%

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%

Not published by this council

Salford'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

Get this data

Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Salford 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=6&limit=5"

Council id for Salford is 6. Full API reference for developers →

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