Essex

Southend-on-Sea planning data

5,418 planning applications from Southend-on-Sea, available as JSON over REST or through the MCP server. 17 fields are populated on at least 90% of records.

5,418

Applications

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Enforcement notices

926

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

Field coverage

Measured across all 5,418 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`	5,418	100.0%
`description`	5,418	100.0%
`reference`	5,418	100.0%
`ward`	5,417	100.0%
`received_date`	5,410	99.9%
`application_type`	5,409	99.8%
`case_officer`	5,409	99.8%
`officer_id`	5,409	99.8%
`status`	5,405	99.8%
`status_normalized`	5,405	99.8%
`agent_email`	5,401	99.7%
`applicant_name`	5,390	99.5%
`decision_level`	5,364	99.0%
`decision`	5,138	94.8%
`decision_date`	5,135	94.8%
`agent_phone`	5,121	94.5%
`postcode`	5,065	93.5%

Partial — use with care

Field	Populated	Coverage
`decision_normalized`	4,653	85.9%
`agent_id`	4,404	81.3%
`agent_name`	4,404	81.3%
`agent_company`	3,816	70.4%
`standard_type`	2,226	41.1%

Rarely or never published

Field	Populated	Coverage
`property_id`	49	0.9%
`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=92&limit=5"

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

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