Hertfordshire

Three Rivers planning data

7,146 planning applications from Three Rivers. 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. 11 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

7,146

Applications

597

Enforcement notices

904

Appeals

1985–2026

Date range

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What Three Rivers decides

Three Rivers has approved 87.77% of the 5,488 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%).

87.77%

Approved, of 5,488 decided

Median days to a decision

66.1

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	2,971	41.6%
Tree	1,298	18.2%
Other	1,233	17.3%
Conditions	692	9.7%
Certificate	657	9.2%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Three Rivers 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 Three Rivers actually provides each one, across all 7,146 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 Three Rivers 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`	7,146	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	7,146	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	7,146	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	7,146	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	7,129	99.8%
Ward `ward`	7,128	99.7%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	7,120	99.6%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	6,996	97.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	6,847	95.8%
Decision `decision`	6,842	95.7%
Postcode `postcode`	6,437	90.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Case officer `case_officer`	6,334	88.6%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	6,299	88.1%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	6,186	86.6%
Agent's name `agent_name`	6,030	84.4%
Agent's email `agent_email`	6,014	84.2%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	5,947	83.2%
Status `status`	5,706	79.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,706	79.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	65	0.9%
Standardised type `standard_type`	59	0.8%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	27	0.4%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	27	0.4%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Three Rivers'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=444&limit=5"

Council id for Three Rivers is 444. Full API reference for developers →

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