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Sutton planning data

5,909 planning applications from Sutton. 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. 6 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

5,909

Applications

104

Enforcement notices

899

Appeals

1900–2026

Date range

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What Sutton decides

Sutton has approved 87.61% of the 1,049 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%).

87.61%

Approved, of 1,049 decided

Median days to a decision

236.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	4,856	82.2%
Householder	520	8.8%
Certificate	220	3.7%
Full	169	2.9%
Tree	96	1.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Sutton 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 Sutton actually provides each one, across all 5,909 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 Sutton 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`	5,909	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,909	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,909	100.0%
Status `status`	5,907	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,903	99.9%
Postcode `postcode`	5,755	97.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,949	83.8%
Ward `ward`	3,127	52.9%
Date received `received_date`	1,336	22.6%
Application type `application_type`	1,304	22.1%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,276	21.6%
Case officer `case_officer`	1,278	21.6%
Decision `decision`	1,250	21.2%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,250	21.2%
Agent's email `agent_email`	1,142	19.3%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,138	19.3%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	1,140	19.3%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,037	17.5%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	1,037	17.5%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	187	3.2%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	26	0.4%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	26	0.4%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Sutton'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=138&limit=5"

Council id for Sutton is 138. Full API reference for developers →

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