Surrey

Waverley planning data

2,395 planning applications from Waverley. 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. 13 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

2,395

Applications

194

Enforcement notices

1,054

Appeals

2022–2026

Date range

What Waverley decides

Waverley has approved 87.43% of the 2,020 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%).

87.43%

Approved, of 2,020 decided

Median days to a decision

79.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	843	35.2%
Other	441	18.4%
Full	306	12.8%
Tree	297	12.4%
Certificate	283	11.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Waverley 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 Waverley actually provides each one, across all 2,395 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 Waverley 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`	2,395	100.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,394	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,395	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,394	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,395	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,395	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,395	100.0%
Status `status`	2,395	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,393	99.9%
Ward `ward`	2,368	98.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,302	96.1%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,262	94.4%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,245	93.7%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision `decision`	2,142	89.4%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,142	89.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,132	89.0%
Postcode `postcode`	2,129	88.9%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,306	54.5%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	45	1.9%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	45	1.9%

Not published by this council

Waverley'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 company Agent's email Agent's phone 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 Waverley 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=457&limit=5"

Council id for Waverley is 457. Full API reference for developers →

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