South Yorkshire

Sheffield planning data

10,400 planning applications from Sheffield. 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. 6 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

10,400

Applications

136

Enforcement notices

1,166

Appeals

1991–2026

Date range

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What Sheffield decides

Sheffield has approved 87.84% of the 5,526 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%).

87.84%

Approved, of 5,526 decided

Median days to a decision

73.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	3,767	36.2%
Other	3,344	32.2%
Conditions	1,025	9.9%
Tree	988	9.5%
Certificate	345	3.3%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Sheffield 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 Sheffield actually provides each one, across all 10,400 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 Sheffield 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`	10,400	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	10,400	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	10,400	100.0%
Status `status`	10,385	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	10,385	99.9%
Postcode `postcode`	10,370	99.7%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Date received `received_date`	8,664	83.3%
Agent's email `agent_email`	7,380	71.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	7,379	71.0%
Application type `application_type`	7,386	71.0%
Ward `ward`	7,385	71.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	7,272	69.9%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	6,628	63.7%
Decision `decision`	6,621	63.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	6,621	63.7%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	6,611	63.6%
Agent's name `agent_name`	6,276	60.3%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	5,704	54.8%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,002	19.2%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	191	1.8%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Sheffield'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 Sheffield 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=47&limit=5"

Council id for Sheffield is 47. Full API reference for developers →

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