Hampshire

Test Valley planning data

7,311 planning applications from Test Valley. 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. 7 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

7,311

Applications

Enforcement notices

542

Appeals

2001–2026

Date range

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We don't yet have Test Valley's full history back to 2023 — it's loading now. The figures below cover what we already hold, so treat them as a minimum rather than the full picture. Alerts for new day-to-day changes start once loading is complete.

What Test Valley decides

Test Valley has approved 89.15% of the 2,148 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%).

89.15%

Approved, of 2,148 decided

Median days to a decision

61.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	3,651	49.9%
Full	1,593	21.8%
Tree	1,374	18.8%
Listed building	249	3.4%
Certificate	222	3.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Test Valley 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 Test Valley actually provides each one, across all 7,311 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 Test Valley 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`	7,311	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	7,311	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	7,311	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	7,301	99.9%
Status `status`	7,200	98.5%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	7,200	98.5%
Postcode `postcode`	6,673	91.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Ward `ward`	4,863	66.5%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	3,977	54.4%
Application type `application_type`	3,979	54.4%
Case officer `case_officer`	3,879	53.1%
Agent's email `agent_email`	3,804	52.0%
Decision `decision`	3,425	46.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	3,405	46.6%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,281	44.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	3,267	44.7%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	3,066	41.9%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,804	38.4%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,802	38.3%
Agent's company `agent_company`	2,569	35.1%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	208	2.8%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	49	0.7%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	49	0.7%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Test Valley'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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Get this data

Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Test Valley 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=441&limit=5"

Council id for Test Valley is 441. Full API reference for developers →

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