Essex

Castle Point planning data

2,530 planning applications from Castle Point. 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.

2,530

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,079

Appeals

2004–2026

Date range

What Castle Point decides

Castle Point has approved 79.62% of the 2,139 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%).

79.62%

Approved, of 2,139 decided

Median days to a decision

60.9

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	1,396	55.2%
Other	346	13.7%
Certificate	319	12.6%
Conditions	134	5.3%
Amendment	117	4.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Castle Point 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 Castle Point actually provides each one, across all 2,530 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 Castle Point 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`	2,530	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,530	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,530	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,530	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,530	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,530	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,527	99.9%
Ward `ward`	2,527	99.9%
Status `status`	2,482	98.1%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,482	98.1%
Postcode `postcode`	2,475	97.8%
Decision `decision`	2,441	96.5%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,441	96.5%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,216	87.6%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,214	87.5%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,134	84.3%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,131	84.2%
Standardised type `standard_type`	945	37.4%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	93	3.7%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	93	3.7%
Agent's company `agent_company`	47	1.9%
Agent's email `agent_email`	17	0.7%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Castle Point'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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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 Castle Point 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=194&limit=5"

Council id for Castle Point is 194. Full API reference for developers →

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