West Midlands

Sandwell planning data

5,464 planning applications from Sandwell. 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.

5,464

Applications

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Enforcement notices

408

Appeals

1989–2026

Date range

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What Sandwell decides

Sandwell has approved 86.54% of the 3,952 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%).

86.54%

Approved, of 3,952 decided

Median days to a decision

71.7

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	2,016	36.9%
Other	1,102	20.2%
Full	772	14.1%
Conditions	505	9.2%
Change of use	404	7.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Sandwell 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 Sandwell actually provides each one, across all 5,464 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 Sandwell 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`	5,464	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,464	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,464	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,464	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	5,461	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,458	99.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,461	99.9%
Ward `ward`	5,460	99.9%
Agent's email `agent_email`	5,425	99.3%
Decision `decision`	5,211	95.4%
Decision date `decision_date`	5,211	95.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	5,211	95.4%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,016	91.8%
Postcode `postcode`	4,941	90.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	4,909	89.8%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,531	82.9%
Status `status`	4,412	80.7%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,412	80.7%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	3,968	72.6%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,790	69.4%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	144	2.6%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	88	1.6%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	88	1.6%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Sandwell's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

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Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Sandwell 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=80&limit=5"

Council id for Sandwell is 80. Full API reference for developers →

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