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Torbay planning data

4,039 planning applications from Torbay. 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. 13 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

4,039

Applications

Enforcement notices

842

Appeals

1988–2026

Date range

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We don't yet have Torbay'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 Torbay decides

Torbay has approved 77.48% of the 2,904 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%).

77.48%

Approved, of 2,904 decided

Median days to a decision

93.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	1,169	28.9%
Tree	1,150	28.5%
Householder	1,003	24.8%
Amendment	288	7.1%
Certificate	205	5.1%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Torbay 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 Torbay actually provides each one, across all 4,039 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 Torbay 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`	4,039	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	4,039	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,039	100.0%
Ward `ward`	4,029	99.8%
Postcode `postcode`	3,946	97.7%
Application type `application_type`	3,831	94.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	3,829	94.8%
Date received `received_date`	3,830	94.8%
Case officer `case_officer`	3,826	94.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	3,819	94.6%
Status `status`	3,722	92.2%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	3,722	92.2%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	3,691	91.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision date `decision_date`	3,539	87.6%
Decision `decision`	3,531	87.4%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	3,371	83.5%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,371	83.5%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	3,247	80.4%
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,220	79.7%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,267	31.4%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	193	4.8%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	156	3.9%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	156	3.9%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Torbay'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 Torbay 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=112&limit=5"

Council id for Torbay is 112. Full API reference for developers →

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