Somerset

Somerset planning data

132 planning applications from Somerset. 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. 7 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

132

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,505

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

Limited data for this council.

We hold only 132 applications here. Treat an absent record as "not published to us", never as "no such application".

What Somerset decides

We can't calculate an approval rate for Somerset: it doesn't publish a usable decision on enough of its applications. That's a gap in what the council makes available, not a sign that nothing is decided — 9 of the councils we hold are in the same position.

Decision times can't be measured here — Somerset doesn't publish both a received and a decision date on enough records. The nationwide range across councils that do is 31 to 299 days.

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	132	100.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Somerset 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 Somerset actually provides each one, across all 132 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 Somerset 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`	132	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	132	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	132	100.0%
Status `status`	132	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	132	100.0%
Agent's name `agent_name`	126	95.5%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	122	92.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision date `decision_date`	112	84.8%
Postcode `postcode`	100	75.8%
Ward `ward`	92	69.7%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	89	67.4%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	13	9.8%
Agent's email `agent_email`	9	6.8%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Application type `application_type`	0	0.0%
Decision `decision`	0	0.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	0	0.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Somerset'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 phone Alternative reference Case officer Type of development Officer's recommendation Date received

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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 Somerset 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=400&limit=5"

Council id for Somerset is 400. Full API reference for developers →

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