Somerset West and Taunton

West Somerset planning data

1,222 planning applications from West Somerset. 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.

1,222

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,427

Appeals

1975–2026

Date range

What West Somerset decides

West Somerset has approved 90.83% of the 1,014 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%).

90.83%

Approved, of 1,014 decided

Median days to a decision

91.4

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	651	53.3%
Other	192	15.7%
Listed building	133	10.9%
Tree	107	8.8%
Amendment	96	7.9%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What West Somerset 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 Somerset actually provides each one, across all 1,222 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 Somerset 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`	1,222	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	1,222	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	1,222	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	1,222	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,218	99.7%
Ward `ward`	1,218	99.7%
Application type `application_type`	1,214	99.3%
Case officer `case_officer`	1,203	98.4%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	1,177	96.3%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,174	96.1%
Decision `decision`	1,173	96.0%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,169	95.7%
Status `status`	1,134	92.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	1,134	92.8%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	1,061	86.8%
Postcode `postcode`	1,035	84.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,005	82.2%
Agent's company `agent_company`	969	79.3%
Standardised type `standard_type`	963	78.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	27	2.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	27	2.2%
Agent's email `agent_email`	10	0.8%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

West Somerset'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

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Or call it from your own code

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

Council id for West Somerset is 471. Full API reference for developers →

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