Essex

Southend-on-Sea planning data

5,650 planning applications from Southend-on-Sea. 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. 16 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

5,650

Applications

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Enforcement notices

935

Appeals

2014–2026

Date range

What Southend-on-Sea decides

Southend-on-Sea has approved 78.12% of the 4,661 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 below the middle of the pack (89.18%).

78.12%

Approved, of 4,661 decided

Median days to a decision

67.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

The mix of application types Southend-on-Sea handles — useful for telling whether your kind of application is routine here or unusual.

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,656	29.3%
Full	1,119	19.8%
Other	800	14.2%
Certificate	682	12.1%
Conditions	611	10.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Southend-on-Sea 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 Southend-on-Sea actually provides each one, across all 5,650 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 Southend-on-Sea 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`	5,650	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	5,650	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,650	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,650	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,650	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,650	100.0%
Ward `ward`	5,648	100.0%
Agent's email `agent_email`	5,638	99.8%
Status `status`	5,636	99.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,636	99.8%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,630	99.6%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,610	99.3%
Decision `decision`	5,412	95.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	5,412	95.8%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	5,343	94.6%
Postcode `postcode`	5,267	93.2%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,913	87.0%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,601	81.4%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,978	70.4%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,226	39.4%

Rarely or never published

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

Not published by this council

Southend-on-Sea'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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Get this data

Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Southend-on-Sea 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=92&limit=5"

Council id for Southend-on-Sea is 92. Full API reference for developers →

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