Dorset

BCP planning data

2,655 planning applications from BCP. 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.

2,655

Applications

Enforcement notices

4,025

Appeals

2022–2026

Date range

What BCP decides

BCP has approved 83.18% of the 1,885 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%).

83.18%

Approved, of 1,885 decided

Median days to a decision

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	692	26.1%
Tree	676	25.5%
Full	585	22.0%
Certificate	221	8.3%
Other	212	8.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What BCP 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 BCP actually provides each one, across all 2,655 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 BCP 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`	2,655	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,655	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,655	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,655	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,655	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,655	100.0%
Status `status`	2,655	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,652	99.9%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,651	99.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,649	99.8%
Ward `ward`	2,651	99.8%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,643	99.5%
Postcode `postcode`	2,628	99.0%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	2,319	87.3%
Decision `decision`	2,291	86.3%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,277	85.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,275	85.7%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,656	62.4%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	111	4.2%
Agent's email `agent_email`	73	2.7%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	67	2.5%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

BCP'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 phone Alternative reference Type of development 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 BCP 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=165&limit=5"

Council id for BCP is 165. Full API reference for developers →

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