Worcestershire

Worcester planning data

1,896 planning applications from Worcester. 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.

1,896

Applications

Enforcement notices

207

Appeals

2019–2026

Date range

What Worcester decides

Worcester has approved 90.23% of the 1,596 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%).

90.23%

Approved, of 1,596 decided

Median days to a decision

70.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	465	24.5%
Full	391	20.6%
Tree	387	20.4%
Other	159	8.4%
Listed building	149	7.9%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Worcester 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 Worcester actually provides each one, across all 1,896 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 Worcester actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Application type `application_type`	1,896	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	1,896	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	1,896	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	1,896	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	1,896	100.0%
Status `status`	1,896	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,894	99.9%
Ward `ward`	1,893	99.8%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,887	99.5%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	1,886	99.5%
Decision `decision`	1,763	93.0%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,763	93.0%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,750	92.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,512	79.7%
Address `address`	246	13.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	246	13.0%
Postcode `postcode`	234	12.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	38	2.0%

Not published by this council

Worcester'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 Alternative reference Appeal decision Type of development Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Officer's recommendation

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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=84&limit=5"

Council id for Worcester is 84. Full API reference for developers →

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