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Somerset West and Taunton

West Somerset planning data

1,190 planning applications from West Somerset, available as JSON over REST or through the MCP server. 15 fields are populated on at least 90% of records.

1,190
Applications
Enforcement notices
1,394
Appeals
1975–2026
Date range

Field coverage

Measured across all 1,190 records. This is what is actually filled in, not what the council's portal offers — ask get_council_fields for the same numbers from an MCP client.

Reliable — 90% or more of records

FieldPopulated Coverage
address 1,190 100.0%
description 1,190 100.0%
received_date 1,190 100.0%
reference 1,190 100.0%
applicant_name 1,186 99.7%
ward 1,186 99.7%
application_type 1,183 99.4%
case_officer 1,171 98.4%
officer_id 1,171 98.4%
decision_level 1,152 96.8%
decision_date 1,111 93.4%
decision 1,110 93.3%
decision_normalized 1,106 92.9%
status 1,104 92.8%
status_normalized 1,104 92.8%

Partial — use with care

FieldPopulated Coverage
alternative_reference 1,030 86.6%
postcode 1,005 84.5%
agent_id 978 82.2%
agent_name 978 82.2%
standard_type 963 80.9%
agent_company 942 79.2%

Rarely or never published

FieldPopulated Coverage
appeal_decision 27 2.3%
appeal_decision_normalized 27 2.3%
agent_email 10 0.8%
property_id 1 0.1%
agent_phone 0 0.0%
development_type 0 0.0%
easting 0 0.0%
northing 0 0.0%
officer_recommendation 0 0.0%

Query it

curl -H "X-Api-Key: $KEY" \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=471&limit=5"

Council id for West Somerset is 471. Full endpoint reference →

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