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Tunbridge Wells planning data

8,956 planning applications from Tunbridge Wells. 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.

8,956
Applications
—
Enforcement notices
38
Appeals
2015–2026
Date range
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What Tunbridge Wells decides

Tunbridge Wells has approved 93.95% of the 1,752 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%).

93.95%
Approved, of 1,752 decided
55
Median days to a decision
58.4
Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application typeApplications Share
Other 6,797 75.9%
Full 1,069 11.9%
Tree 671 7.5%
Listed building 189 2.1%
Certificate 128 1.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Tunbridge Wells 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 Tunbridge Wells actually provides each one, across all 8,956 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 Tunbridge Wells actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

InformationRecords with it Coverage
Address
address
8,956 100.0%
Description of the works
description
8,956 100.0%
Date received
received_date
8,956 100.0%
Council reference
reference
8,956 100.0%
Status
status
8,851 98.8%
Status (standardised wording)
status_normalized
8,851 98.8%
Postcode
postcode
8,163 91.1%

Partial — use with care

InformationRecords with it Coverage
Ward
ward
4,037 45.1%
Applicant's name
applicant_name
2,672 29.8%
Application type
application_type
2,672 29.8%
Who decided it (officer or committee)
decision_level
2,672 29.8%
Agent's email
agent_email
2,642 29.5%
Case officer
case_officer
2,434 27.2%
Alternative reference
alternative_reference
2,345 26.2%
Decision
decision
2,275 25.4%
Decision date
decision_date
2,274 25.4%
Decision (standardised wording)
decision_normalized
2,258 25.2%
Agent's name
agent_name
1,988 22.2%
Agent's phone
agent_phone
1,895 21.2%
Agent's company
agent_company
1,869 20.9%

Rarely or never published

InformationRecords with it Coverage
Standardised type
standard_type
183 2.0%
Appeal decision
appeal_decision
20 0.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording)
appeal_decision_normalized
20 0.2%
Type of development
development_type
0 0.0%
Officer's recommendation
officer_recommendation
0 0.0%

Not published by this council

Tunbridge Wells'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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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=448&limit=5"

Council id for Tunbridge Wells is 448. Full API reference for developers →

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