South Yorkshire

Barnsley planning data

3,706 planning applications from Barnsley. 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.

3,706

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,147

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Barnsley decides

Barnsley has approved 93.43% of the 3,122 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%).

93.43%

Approved, of 3,122 decided

Median days to a decision

110.9

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,317	35.5%
Full	712	19.2%
Conditions	478	12.9%
Tree	237	6.4%
Other	237	6.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Barnsley 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 Barnsley actually provides each one, across all 3,706 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 Barnsley 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`	3,706	100.0%
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,705	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	3,706	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	3,706	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	3,706	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	3,706	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	3,706	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	3,706	100.0%
Status `status`	3,706	100.0%
Ward `ward`	3,706	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	3,704	99.9%
Postcode `postcode`	3,432	92.6%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	3,401	91.8%
Decision `decision`	3,366	90.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,362	90.7%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision date `decision_date`	3,125	84.3%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,915	78.7%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	58	1.6%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	58	1.6%

Not published by this council

Barnsley'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 Type of development Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Officer's recommendation

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 Barnsley 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=44&limit=5"

Council id for Barnsley is 44. Full API reference for developers →

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