West Sussex

West Sussex planning data

153 planning applications from West Sussex, available as JSON over REST or through the MCP server. 12 fields are populated on at least 90% of records.

153

Applications

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Enforcement notices

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

Limited data for this council.

We hold only 153 applications here. Treat an absent record as "not published to us", never as "no such application".

Field coverage

Measured across all 153 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

Field	Populated	Coverage
`address`	153	100.0%
`agent_id`	153	100.0%
`agent_name`	153	100.0%
`case_officer`	153	100.0%
`description`	153	100.0%
`officer_id`	153	100.0%
`reference`	153	100.0%
`status`	153	100.0%
`status_normalized`	153	100.0%
`applicant_name`	152	99.3%
`postcode`	145	94.8%
`ward`	140	91.5%

Partial — use with care

Field	Populated	Coverage
`decision`	126	82.4%
`decision_date`	126	82.4%
`decision_normalized`	126	82.4%

Rarely or never published

Field	Populated	Coverage
`agent_company`	5	3.3%
`agent_email`	4	2.6%
`agent_phone`	0	0.0%
`alternative_reference`	0	0.0%
`appeal_decision`	0	0.0%
`appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
`application_type`	0	0.0%
`decision_level`	0	0.0%
`development_type`	0	0.0%
`easting`	0	0.0%
`northing`	0	0.0%
`officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%
`property_id`	0	0.0%
`received_date`	0	0.0%
`standard_type`	0	0.0%

Query it

curl -H "X-Api-Key: $KEY" \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=473&limit=5"

Council id for West Sussex is 473. Full endpoint reference →

Get a key for West Sussex data

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