West Midlands

Walsall planning data

2,050 planning applications from Walsall. 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. 9 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

2,050

Applications

776

Enforcement notices

286

Appeals

2022–2026

Date range

What Walsall decides

Walsall has approved 79.5% of the 1,624 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%).

79.5%

Approved, of 1,624 decided

Decision times can't be measured here — Walsall doesn't publish both a received and a decision date on enough records. The nationwide range across councils that do is 31 to 299 days.

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	783	38.2%
Householder	567	27.7%
Full	422	20.6%
Tree	114	5.6%
Amendment	63	3.1%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Walsall 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 Walsall actually provides each one, across all 2,050 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 Walsall 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`	2,050	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,050	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,050	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,050	100.0%
Ward `ward`	2,044	99.7%
Status `status`	2,007	97.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,007	97.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,984	96.8%
Postcode `postcode`	1,982	96.7%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision date `decision_date`	1,764	86.0%
Decision `decision`	1,761	85.9%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,724	84.1%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,723	84.0%
Application type `application_type`	1,376	67.1%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,113	54.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Date received `received_date`	0	0.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Walsall's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

Agent's email Agent's phone Alternative reference Appeal decision Who decided it (officer or committee) Type of development Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Officer's recommendation

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 Walsall 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=82&limit=5"

Council id for Walsall is 82. Full API reference for developers →

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