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Sevenoaks planning data

11,279 planning applications from Sevenoaks. 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. 15 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

11,279

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,111

Appeals

1977–2026

Date range

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We don't yet have Sevenoaks's full history back to 2023 — it's loading now. The figures below cover what we already hold, so treat them as a minimum rather than the full picture. Alerts for new day-to-day changes start once loading is complete.

What Sevenoaks decides

Sevenoaks has approved 87.09% of the 8,663 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%).

87.09%

Approved, of 8,663 decided

Median days to a decision

69.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Conditions	3,040	27.0%
Householder	2,331	20.7%
Tree	2,181	19.3%
Full	1,276	11.3%
Other	729	6.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Sevenoaks 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 Sevenoaks actually provides each one, across all 11,279 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 Sevenoaks 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`	11,279	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	11,274	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	11,274	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	11,279	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	11,279	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	11,279	100.0%
Status `status`	11,272	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	11,272	99.9%
Ward `ward`	11,270	99.9%
Postcode `postcode`	10,739	95.2%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	10,701	94.9%
Decision `decision`	10,705	94.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	10,706	94.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	10,665	94.6%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	10,389	92.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	9,150	81.1%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,359	20.9%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	66	0.6%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	38	0.3%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	38	0.3%
Agent's email `agent_email`	9	0.1%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Sevenoaks'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 Sevenoaks 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=394&limit=5"

Council id for Sevenoaks is 394. Full API reference for developers →

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