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Torfaen planning data

1,961 planning applications from Torfaen. 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. 18 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

1,961

Applications

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Enforcement notices

2,009

Appeals

1993–2026

Date range

What Torfaen decides

Torfaen has approved 92.41% of the 1,687 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%).

92.41%

Approved, of 1,687 decided

Median days to a decision

113.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	524	26.7%
Full	499	25.4%
Conditions	302	15.4%
Other	180	9.2%
Certificate	167	8.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Torfaen 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 Torfaen actually provides each one, across all 1,961 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 Torfaen 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`	1,961	100.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	1,961	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	1,961	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	1,961	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	1,961	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	1,961	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	1,961	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	1,961	100.0%
Ward `ward`	1,961	100.0%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	1,960	99.9%
Status `status`	1,952	99.5%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	1,952	99.5%
Agent's email `agent_email`	1,942	99.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,927	98.3%
Decision `decision`	1,805	92.0%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,805	92.0%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,797	91.6%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	1,766	90.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	1,729	88.2%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,554	79.2%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,551	79.1%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,444	73.6%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	40	2.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Torfaen'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

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Torfaen 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=446&limit=5"

Council id for Torfaen is 446. Full API reference for developers →

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