Hertfordshire

Broxbourne planning data

3,421 planning applications from Broxbourne. 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. 11 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

3,421

Applications

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Enforcement notices

377

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Broxbourne decides

Broxbourne has approved 86.1% of the 2,216 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%).

86.1%

Approved, of 2,216 decided

Median days to a decision

82.9

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,073	31.4%
Other	720	21.0%
Full	561	16.4%
Certificate	453	13.2%
Tree	310	9.1%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Broxbourne 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 Broxbourne actually provides each one, across all 3,421 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 Broxbourne 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`	3,421	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	3,421	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	3,420	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	3,421	100.0%
Status `status`	3,421	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	3,421	100.0%
Ward `ward`	3,416	99.9%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	3,410	99.7%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	3,410	99.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	3,378	98.7%
Postcode `postcode`	3,256	95.2%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision `decision`	2,835	82.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,835	82.9%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,739	80.1%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,668	78.0%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,546	74.4%
Date received `received_date`	785	22.9%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Broxbourne'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 email Agent's phone Alternative reference Appeal decision Who decided it (officer or committee) 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 Broxbourne 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=184&limit=5"

Council id for Broxbourne is 184. Full API reference for developers →

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