Lincolnshire

South Kesteven planning data

8,400 planning applications from South Kesteven. 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.

8,400

Applications

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Enforcement notices

8,735

Appeals

1992–2026

Date range

What South Kesteven decides

South Kesteven has approved 91.16% of the 6,055 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%).

91.16%

Approved, of 6,055 decided

Median days to a decision

87.9

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	1,831	21.8%
Householder	1,818	21.6%
Other	1,499	17.8%
Tree	1,189	14.2%
Listed building	870	10.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What South Kesteven 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 Kesteven actually provides each one, across all 8,400 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 South Kesteven 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`	8,400	100.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	8,400	100.0%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	8,399	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	8,400	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	8,400	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	8,400	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	8,400	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	8,400	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	8,400	100.0%
Ward `ward`	8,400	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	8,383	99.8%
Status `status`	8,225	97.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	8,204	97.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	8,201	97.6%
Decision `decision`	8,019	95.5%
Decision date `decision_date`	8,019	95.5%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	7,907	94.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	7,527	89.6%
Agent's company `agent_company`	6,596	78.5%
Agent's name `agent_name`	5,822	69.3%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	5,742	68.4%
Standardised type `standard_type`	5,444	64.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	176	2.1%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

South Kesteven'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

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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=408&limit=5"

Council id for South Kesteven is 408. Full API reference for developers →

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