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Waltham Forest planning data

5,911 planning applications from Waltham Forest. 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. 15 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

5,911

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,319

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

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We don't yet have Waltham Forest's full history back to 2023 — it's loading now. The figures below cover what we already hold, so treat them as a minimum rather than the full picture. Alerts for new day-to-day changes start once loading is complete.

What Waltham Forest decides

Waltham Forest has approved 73.1% of the 5,064 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%).

73.1%

Approved, of 5,064 decided

Median days to a decision

90.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,930	32.7%
Full	1,620	27.4%
Certificate	905	15.3%
Conditions	483	8.2%
Other	387	6.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Waltham Forest 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 Waltham Forest actually provides each one, across all 5,911 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 Waltham Forest 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`	5,911	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	5,911	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,911	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,911	100.0%
Ward `ward`	5,909	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,904	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,907	99.9%
Date received `received_date`	5,908	99.9%
Status `status`	5,906	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,906	99.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,631	95.3%
Decision `decision`	5,405	91.4%
Decision date `decision_date`	5,403	91.4%
Postcode `postcode`	5,403	91.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	5,341	90.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	5,287	89.4%
Agent's company `agent_company`	4,587	77.6%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,521	42.6%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	1,555	26.3%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	1,555	26.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	182	3.1%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	174	2.9%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	174	2.9%
Agent's email `agent_email`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Waltham Forest'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 phone Type of development Officer's recommendation

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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 Waltham Forest 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=132&limit=5"

Council id for Waltham Forest is 132. Full API reference for developers →

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