Northern Ireland

Ards and North Down planning data

3,362 planning applications from Ards and North Down. 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.

3,362

Applications

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Enforcement notices

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Appeals

2022–2026

Date range

What Ards and North Down decides

Ards and North Down has approved 96.31% of the 2,494 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%).

96.31%

Approved, of 2,494 decided

Median days to a decision

163.1

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	2,332	69.4%
Other	506	15.1%
Conditions	300	8.9%
Advertisement	118	3.5%
Listed building	106	3.2%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Ards and North Down 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 Ards and North Down actually provides each one, across all 3,362 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 Ards and North Down 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`	3,362	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	3,362	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	3,361	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	3,362	100.0%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	3,362	100.0%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	3,362	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	3,362	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	3,362	100.0%
Status `status`	3,362	100.0%
Ward `ward`	3,362	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	3,360	99.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	3,349	99.6%
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,287	97.8%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's email `agent_email`	2,957	88.0%
Postcode `postcode`	2,960	88.0%
Decision `decision`	2,918	86.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,918	86.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,913	86.6%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,802	83.3%
Agent's company `agent_company`	2,747	81.7%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,093	62.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	241	7.2%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	53	1.6%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Ards and North Down'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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curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=156&limit=5"

Council id for Ards and North Down is 156. Full API reference for developers →

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