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Shepway planning data

5,406 planning applications from Shepway. 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. 9 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

5,406

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,125

Appeals

2022–2026

Date range

What Shepway decides

Shepway has approved 85.93% of the 4,095 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%).

85.93%

Approved, of 4,095 decided

Median days to a decision

75.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	1,825	33.8%
Householder	1,228	22.7%
Full	1,003	18.6%
Certificate	430	8.0%
Tree	401	7.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Shepway 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 Shepway actually provides each one, across all 5,406 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 Shepway 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`	5,406	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,406	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,406	100.0%
Status `status`	5,406	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,392	99.7%
Decision `decision`	5,214	96.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	5,081	94.0%
Ward `ward`	5,030	93.0%
Postcode `postcode`	4,955	91.7%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Application type `application_type`	3,678	68.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	3,675	68.0%
Date received `received_date`	3,676	68.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	3,629	67.1%
Decision date `decision_date`	3,489	64.5%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,892	53.5%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,517	28.1%

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%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Shepway'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

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 Shepway 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=395&limit=5"

Council id for Shepway is 395. Full API reference for developers →

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