Cumbria

Allerdale planning data

2,824 planning applications from Allerdale. 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.

2,824

Applications

104

Enforcement notices

262

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Allerdale decides

Allerdale has approved 95.92% of the 2,134 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%).

95.92%

Approved, of 2,134 decided

Decision times can't be measured here — Allerdale doesn't publish both a received and a decision date on enough records. The nationwide range across councils that do is 31 to 299 days.

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	672	23.8%
Full	645	22.8%
Other	451	16.0%
Tree	265	9.4%
Conditions	213	7.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Allerdale 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 Allerdale actually provides each one, across all 2,824 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 Allerdale 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`	2,824	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,823	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,824	100.0%
Status `status`	2,824	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,824	100.0%
Ward `ward`	2,823	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,816	99.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,816	99.7%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,816	99.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,811	99.5%
Postcode `postcode`	2,640	93.5%
Decision `decision`	2,635	93.3%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,582	91.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,570	91.0%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,059	72.9%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	1,351	47.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Allerdale'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 Appeal decision Type of development Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Officer's recommendation Date received

Get this data

Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Allerdale 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=81376&limit=5"

Council id for Allerdale is 81376. Full API reference for developers →

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