Hertfordshire

Stevenage planning data

2,144 planning applications from Stevenage. 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.

2,144

Applications

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Enforcement notices

2,377

Appeals

1999–2026

Date range

What Stevenage decides

Stevenage has approved 93.07% of the 1,442 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%).

93.07%

Approved, of 1,442 decided

Median days to a decision

69.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	594	27.7%
Full	480	22.4%
Conditions	319	14.9%
Tree	187	8.7%
Certificate	187	8.7%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Stevenage 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 Stevenage actually provides each one, across all 2,144 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 Stevenage 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`	2,144	100.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,144	100.0%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	2,143	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,144	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,144	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,144	100.0%
Ward `ward`	2,144	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,140	99.8%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,140	99.8%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,140	99.8%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,116	98.7%
Status `status`	2,116	98.7%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,116	98.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	2,044	95.3%
Decision `decision`	2,033	94.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,033	94.8%
Postcode `postcode`	1,989	92.8%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,789	83.4%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,723	80.4%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,721	80.3%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	1,672	78.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,536	71.6%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	8	0.4%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Stevenage'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=424&limit=5"

Council id for Stevenage is 424. Full API reference for developers →

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