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Canterbury planning data

8,835 planning applications from Canterbury. 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.

8,835

Applications

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Enforcement notices

678

Appeals

1987–2026

Date range

What Canterbury decides

Canterbury has approved 93.5% of the 5,480 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%).

93.5%

Approved, of 5,480 decided

Decision times can't be measured here — Canterbury 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 Canterbury handles — useful for telling whether your kind of application is routine here or unusual.

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	3,655	41.4%
Other	2,980	33.7%
Listed building	581	6.6%
Amendment	561	6.3%
Certificate	447	5.1%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Canterbury 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 Canterbury actually provides each one, across all 8,835 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 Canterbury 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`	8,835	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	8,835	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	8,835	100.0%
Status `status`	8,832	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	8,832	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	8,830	99.9%
Ward `ward`	8,802	99.6%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	8,620	97.6%
Decision `decision`	8,204	92.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	8,204	92.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	8,143	92.2%
Postcode `postcode`	8,150	92.2%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	8,120	91.9%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	7,576	85.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	7,229	81.8%
Agent's company `agent_company`	6,404	72.5%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,569	17.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	146	1.7%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	146	1.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	67	0.8%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Canterbury'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 Canterbury 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=192&limit=5"

Council id for Canterbury is 192. Full API reference for developers →

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