West Midlands

Solihull planning data

7,613 planning applications from Solihull. 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. 17 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

7,613

Applications

Enforcement notices

8,647

Appeals

1900–2026

Date range

What Solihull decides

Solihull has approved 89.76% of the 6,872 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 at or above the middle of the pack (89.18%).

89.76%

Approved, of 6,872 decided

Median days to a decision

89.7

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	3,549	46.6%
Tree	851	11.2%
Full	844	11.1%
Conditions	644	8.5%
Other	526	6.9%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Solihull 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 Solihull actually provides each one, across all 7,613 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 Solihull 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`	7,613	100.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	7,613	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	7,612	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	7,612	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	7,613	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	7,613	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	7,613	100.0%
Ward `ward`	7,613	100.0%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	7,605	99.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	7,592	99.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	7,561	99.3%
Decision `decision`	7,144	93.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	7,144	93.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	7,112	93.4%
Postcode `postcode`	7,014	92.1%
Status `status`	6,858	90.1%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	6,858	90.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	6,317	83.0%
Agent's name `agent_name`	6,317	83.0%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	6,069	79.7%
Standardised type `standard_type`	4,284	56.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	146	1.9%
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

Solihull'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 Solihull 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=81&limit=5"

Council id for Solihull is 81. Full API reference for developers →

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