Wiltshire

Swindon planning data

5,184 planning applications from Swindon. 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.

5,184

Applications

295

Enforcement notices

5,625

Appeals

1998–2026

Date range

What Swindon decides

Swindon has approved 90.27% of the 4,019 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%).

90.27%

Approved, of 4,019 decided

Median days to a decision

84.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,614	31.1%
Full	982	18.9%
Conditions	740	14.3%
Tree	564	10.9%
Certificate	453	8.7%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Swindon 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 Swindon actually provides each one, across all 5,184 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 Swindon 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`	5,184	100.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	5,184	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	5,182	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,182	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,182	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,184	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,184	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,184	100.0%
Ward `ward`	5,184	100.0%
Status `status`	5,179	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,165	99.6%
Agent's email `agent_email`	5,143	99.2%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,123	98.8%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	5,096	98.3%
Decision `decision`	4,940	95.3%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,940	95.3%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,897	94.5%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	4,440	85.6%
Postcode `postcode`	4,400	84.9%
Agent's company `agent_company`	4,224	81.5%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,224	81.5%
Standardised type `standard_type`	4,080	78.7%

Rarely or never published

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

Not published by this council

Swindon'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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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=111&limit=5"

Council id for Swindon is 111. Full API reference for developers →

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