Surrey

Surrey Heath planning data

5,442 planning applications from Surrey Heath. 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. 14 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

5,442

Applications

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Enforcement notices

5,478

Appeals

1987–2026

Date range

What Surrey Heath decides

Surrey Heath has approved 87.53% of the 3,913 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%).

87.53%

Approved, of 3,913 decided

Median days to a decision

77.7

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	2,114	38.8%
Other	1,467	27.0%
Tree	1,131	20.8%
Certificate	510	9.4%
Amendment	170	3.1%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Surrey Heath 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 Surrey Heath actually provides each one, across all 5,442 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 Surrey Heath 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`	5,442	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	5,442	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,442	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,442	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,442	100.0%
Ward `ward`	5,426	99.7%
Status `status`	5,395	99.1%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,395	99.1%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,318	97.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,172	95.0%
Decision `decision`	5,088	93.5%
Decision date `decision_date`	5,088	93.5%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,922	90.4%
Postcode `postcode`	4,916	90.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	4,789	88.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,749	87.3%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,100	75.3%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,894	71.6%
Standardised type `standard_type`	3,886	71.4%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	141	2.6%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	141	2.6%
Agent's email `agent_email`	25	0.5%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Surrey Heath'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

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Surrey Heath 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=432&limit=5"

Council id for Surrey Heath is 432. Full API reference for developers →

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