Northern Ireland

Antrim and Newtownabbey planning data

3,019 planning applications from Antrim and Newtownabbey. 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. 15 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

3,019

Applications

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Enforcement notices

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Appeals

2022–2026

Date range

What Antrim and Newtownabbey decides

Antrim and Newtownabbey has approved 90.48% of the 2,122 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%).

90.48%

Approved, of 2,122 decided

Median days to a decision

119.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	1,780	59.0%
Other	644	21.3%
Conditions	436	14.4%
Advertisement	128	4.2%
Listed building	31	1.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Antrim and Newtownabbey 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 Antrim and Newtownabbey actually provides each one, across all 3,019 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 Antrim and Newtownabbey 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`	3,019	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	3,019	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	3,019	100.0%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	3,019	100.0%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	3,019	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	3,019	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	3,019	100.0%
Status `status`	3,019	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	3,019	100.0%
Ward `ward`	3,019	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	3,006	99.6%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,981	98.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,977	98.6%
Decision `decision`	2,720	90.1%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,721	90.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision date `decision_date`	2,656	88.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,542	84.2%
Agent's email `agent_email`	2,484	82.3%
Postcode `postcode`	2,454	81.3%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,943	64.4%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,382	45.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	275	9.1%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	136	4.5%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Antrim and Newtownabbey's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

Appeal decision Who decided it (officer or committee) Type of development

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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=155&limit=5"

Council id for Antrim and Newtownabbey is 155. Full API reference for developers →

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