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Basildon planning data

5,217 planning applications from Basildon. 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.

5,217

Applications

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Enforcement notices

6,177

Appeals

2009–2026

Date range

What Basildon decides

Basildon has approved 85.31% of the 4,601 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 below the middle of the pack (89.18%).

85.31%

Approved, of 4,601 decided

Median days to a decision

78.1

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	2,556	49.0%
Other	1,826	35.0%
Tree	427	8.2%
Amendment	346	6.6%
Change of use	33	0.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Basildon 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 Basildon actually provides each one, across all 5,217 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 Basildon 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`	5,217	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	5,215	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,217	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,217	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,217	100.0%
Agent's email `agent_email`	5,197	99.6%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,147	98.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,107	97.9%
Ward `ward`	4,941	94.7%
Decision `decision`	4,890	93.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,890	93.7%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	4,786	91.7%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,767	91.4%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	4,704	90.2%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,584	87.9%
Postcode `postcode`	4,347	83.3%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,282	82.1%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,821	73.2%
Status `status`	3,697	70.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	3,697	70.9%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,895	36.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	56	1.1%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	56	1.1%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

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

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curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=161&limit=5"

Council id for Basildon is 161. Full API reference for developers →

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