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West Berkshire planning data

9,285 planning applications from West Berkshire. 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. 14 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

9,285
Applications
—
Enforcement notices
739
Appeals
1974–2026
Date range
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What West Berkshire decides

West Berkshire has approved 89.87% of the 6,838 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%).

89.87%
Approved, of 6,838 decided
63
Median days to a decision
80.2
Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application typeApplications Share
Householder 2,494 26.9%
Tree 1,474 15.9%
Full 1,436 15.5%
Conditions 1,289 13.9%
Other 1,166 12.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What West Berkshire 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 West Berkshire actually provides each one, across all 9,285 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 West Berkshire actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

InformationRecords with it Coverage
Address
address
9,285 100.0%
Description of the works
description
9,285 100.0%
Council reference
reference
9,285 100.0%
Application type
application_type
9,276 99.9%
Ward
ward
9,243 99.5%
Status
status
9,219 99.3%
Status (standardised wording)
status_normalized
9,219 99.3%
Applicant's name
applicant_name
9,196 99.0%
Agent's email
agent_email
9,181 98.9%
Decision
decision
8,732 94.0%
Decision date
decision_date
8,732 94.0%
Decision (standardised wording)
decision_normalized
8,603 92.7%
Case officer
case_officer
8,594 92.6%
Date received
received_date
8,398 90.4%

Partial — use with care

InformationRecords with it Coverage
Postcode
postcode
7,579 81.6%
Agent's name
agent_name
7,150 77.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee)
decision_level
6,965 75.0%
Agent's phone
agent_phone
6,911 74.4%
Standardised type
standard_type
1,757 18.9%
Agent's company
agent_company
1,726 18.6%

Rarely or never published

InformationRecords with it Coverage
Alternative reference
alternative_reference
905 9.7%
Appeal decision
appeal_decision
151 1.6%
Appeal decision (standardised wording)
appeal_decision_normalized
151 1.6%
Type of development
development_type
0 0.0%
Officer's recommendation
officer_recommendation
0 0.0%

Not published by this council

West Berkshire'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 West Berkshire 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=102&limit=5"

Council id for West Berkshire is 102. Full API reference for developers →

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