Greater Manchester

Trafford planning data

9,124 planning applications from Trafford. 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. 12 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

9,124

Applications

154

Enforcement notices

982

Appeals

1977–2026

Date range

What Trafford decides

Trafford has approved 84.74% of the 7,031 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%).

84.74%

Approved, of 7,031 decided

Median days to a decision

84.1

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	3,603	39.5%
Full	1,231	13.5%
Conditions	1,159	12.7%
Tree	1,029	11.3%
Certificate	736	8.1%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Trafford 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 Trafford actually provides each one, across all 9,124 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 Trafford 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`	9,124	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	9,123	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	9,124	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	9,124	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	9,124	100.0%
Ward `ward`	9,089	99.6%
Decision date `decision_date`	8,673	95.1%
Decision `decision`	8,672	95.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	8,609	94.4%
Postcode `postcode`	8,540	93.6%
Status `status`	8,342	91.4%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	8,342	91.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	8,149	89.3%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	7,894	86.5%
Agent's name `agent_name`	7,807	85.6%
Agent's company `agent_company`	7,176	78.6%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	6,987	76.6%
Standardised type `standard_type`	6,812	74.7%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	230	2.5%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	230	2.5%
Agent's email `agent_email`	112	1.2%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Trafford'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 Trafford 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=9&limit=5"

Council id for Trafford is 9. Full API reference for developers →

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