Staffordshire

Stafford planning data

3,843 planning applications from Stafford. 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. 10 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

3,843

Applications

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Enforcement notices

381

Appeals

1983–2026

Date range

What Stafford decides

Stafford has approved 82.7% of the 3,047 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%).

82.7%

Approved, of 3,047 decided

106

Median days to a decision

155.7

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,114	29.0%
Full	951	24.7%
Tree	653	17.0%
Other	522	13.6%
Certificate	337	8.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Stafford 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 Stafford actually provides each one, across all 3,843 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 Stafford 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`	3,843	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	3,842	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	3,843	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	3,843	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	3,843	100.0%
Ward `ward`	3,833	99.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	3,806	99.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	3,723	96.9%
Status `status`	3,498	91.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	3,498	91.0%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision `decision`	3,417	88.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	3,417	88.9%
Postcode `postcode`	3,296	85.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,295	85.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,976	77.4%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,937	76.4%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,645	68.8%
Agent's company `agent_company`	531	13.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	86	2.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	86	2.2%
Agent's email `agent_email`	0	0.0%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	1	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Stafford'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=419&limit=5"

Council id for Stafford is 419. Full API reference for developers →

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