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South Downs planning data

10,343 planning applications from South Downs. 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.

10,343

Applications

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Enforcement notices

Appeals

2018–2026

Date range

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What South Downs decides

South Downs has approved 90.69% of the 1,138 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%).

90.69%

Approved, of 1,138 decided

Median days to a decision

89.7

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	8,772	84.8%
Householder	393	3.8%
Tree	347	3.4%
Conditions	251	2.4%
Full	229	2.2%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What South Downs 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 South Downs actually provides each one, across all 10,343 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 South Downs 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`	10,343	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	10,343	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	10,343	100.0%
Status `status`	10,285	99.4%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	10,252	99.1%
Postcode `postcode`	9,312	90.0%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Ward `ward`	3,882	37.5%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,964	19.0%
Date received `received_date`	1,942	18.8%
Application type `application_type`	1,886	18.2%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	1,886	18.2%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,833	17.7%
Decision `decision`	1,669	16.1%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,668	16.1%
Case officer `case_officer`	1,542	14.9%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	1,508	14.6%
Agent's email `agent_email`	1,292	12.5%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,293	12.5%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	1,197	11.6%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,168	11.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	135	1.3%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	27	0.3%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	27	0.3%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

South Downs'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 South Downs 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=101&limit=5"

Council id for South Downs is 101. Full API reference for developers →

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