Tyne and Wear

Sunderland planning data

4,508 planning applications from Sunderland. 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. 5 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

4,508

Applications

Enforcement notices

313

Appeals

2016–2026

Date range

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What Sunderland decides

Sunderland has approved 88.44% of the 813 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%).

88.44%

Approved, of 813 decided

Median days to a decision

76.2

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	3,588	79.6%
Full	379	8.4%
Conditions	359	8.0%
Tree	98	2.2%
Amendment	43	1.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Sunderland 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 Sunderland actually provides each one, across all 4,508 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 Sunderland 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`	4,508	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	4,508	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,508	100.0%
Status `status`	4,193	93.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,193	93.0%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	3,181	70.6%
Ward `ward`	2,318	51.4%
Date received `received_date`	1,083	24.0%
Application type `application_type`	1,038	23.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	1,038	23.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,031	22.9%
Decision `decision`	886	19.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	889	19.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	869	19.3%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	854	18.9%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	761	16.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	744	16.5%
Agent's name `agent_name`	740	16.4%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	674	15.0%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	432	9.6%
Standardised type `standard_type`	213	4.7%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	17	0.4%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	17	0.4%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Sunderland'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=62&limit=5"

Council id for Sunderland is 62. Full API reference for developers →

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