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Uttlesford planning data

8,501 planning applications from Uttlesford. 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. 5 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

8,501

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,757

Appeals

2013–2026

Date range

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What Uttlesford decides

Uttlesford has approved 74.32% of the 296 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%).

74.32%

Approved, of 296 decided

Median days to a decision

60.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	7,911	93.1%
Conditions	174	2.0%
Householder	105	1.2%
Full	96	1.1%
Tree	76	0.9%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Uttlesford 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 Uttlesford actually provides each one, across all 8,501 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 Uttlesford 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`	8,501	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	8,501	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	8,501	100.0%
Status `status`	8,247	97.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	7,870	92.6%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	7,335	86.3%
Postcode `postcode`	6,590	77.5%
Ward `ward`	2,359	27.7%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Date received `received_date`	778	9.2%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	646	7.6%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	646	7.6%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	643	7.6%
Application type `application_type`	644	7.6%
Case officer `case_officer`	644	7.6%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	644	7.6%
Agent's company `agent_company`	493	5.8%
Agent's email `agent_email`	489	5.8%
Agent's name `agent_name`	493	5.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	431	5.1%
Decision `decision`	424	5.0%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	384	4.5%
Standardised type `standard_type`	203	2.4%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	19	0.2%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Uttlesford'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 Uttlesford 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=451&limit=5"

Council id for Uttlesford is 451. Full API reference for developers →

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