Essex

Southend planning data

165 planning applications from Southend, available as JSON over REST or through the MCP server. 15 fields are populated on at least 90% of records.

165

Applications

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Enforcement notices

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Appeals

2026–2026

Date range

Limited data for this council.

We hold only 165 applications here. Treat an absent record as "not published to us", never as "no such application".

Field coverage

Measured across all 165 records. This is what is actually filled in, not what the council's portal offers — ask get_council_fields for the same numbers from an MCP client.

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Field	Populated	Coverage
`address`	165	100.0%
`description`	165	100.0%
`reference`	165	100.0%
`status`	165	100.0%
`status_normalized`	165	100.0%
`ward`	165	100.0%
`agent_email`	160	97.0%
`application_type`	160	97.0%
`case_officer`	160	97.0%
`officer_id`	160	97.0%
`received_date`	160	97.0%
`standard_type`	160	97.0%
`applicant_name`	159	96.4%
`decision_level`	153	92.7%
`postcode`	150	90.9%

Partial — use with care

Field	Populated	Coverage
`agent_id`	135	81.8%
`agent_name`	135	81.8%
`agent_company`	123	74.5%
`decision_date`	43	26.1%
`property_id`	30	18.2%
`decision`	21	12.7%
`decision_normalized`	20	12.1%

Rarely or never published

Field	Populated	Coverage
`agent_phone`	0	0.0%
`alternative_reference`	0	0.0%
`appeal_decision`	0	0.0%
`appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
`development_type`	0	0.0%
`easting`	0	0.0%
`northing`	0	0.0%
`officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Query it

curl -H "X-Api-Key: $KEY" \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=406&limit=5"

Council id for Southend is 406. Full endpoint reference →

Get a key for Southend data

500 requests a month, free. No card, no password.