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Brentwood planning data

6,629 planning applications from Brentwood. 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.

6,629

Applications

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Enforcement notices

897

Appeals

1969–2026

Date range

What Brentwood decides

Brentwood has approved 83.32% of the 5,437 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%).

83.32%

Approved, of 5,437 decided

Decision times can't be measured here — Brentwood doesn't publish both a received and a decision date on enough records. The nationwide range across councils that do is 31 to 299 days.

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	1,889	28.5%
Householder	1,838	27.7%
Conditions	719	10.8%
Certificate	701	10.6%
Tree	678	10.2%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Brentwood 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 Brentwood actually provides each one, across all 6,629 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 Brentwood 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`	6,629	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	6,628	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	6,629	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	6,629	100.0%
Ward `ward`	6,622	99.9%
Status `status`	6,584	99.3%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	6,584	99.3%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	6,428	97.0%
Decision `decision`	6,323	95.4%
Decision date `decision_date`	6,326	95.4%
Agent's email `agent_email`	6,319	95.3%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	6,286	94.8%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	6,145	92.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,963	90.0%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	5,665	85.5%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	5,572	84.1%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,550	83.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	5,222	78.8%
Agent's company `agent_company`	4,696	70.8%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,875	28.3%

Rarely or never published

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

Not published by this council

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

Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Date received

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 Brentwood 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=176&limit=5"

Council id for Brentwood is 176. Full API reference for developers →

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