Lancashire

Chorley planning data

4,158 planning applications from Chorley. 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. 17 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

4,158

Applications

150

Enforcement notices

372

Appeals

1990–2026

Date range

What Chorley decides

Chorley has approved 90.06% of the 3,067 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%).

90.06%

Approved, of 3,067 decided

Median days to a decision

76.2

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,011	24.3%
Full	942	22.7%
Other	675	16.2%
Conditions	422	10.1%
Tree	413	9.9%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Chorley 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 Chorley actually provides each one, across all 4,158 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 Chorley 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`	4,158	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	4,158	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	4,158	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,158	100.0%
Ward `ward`	4,157	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,155	99.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,112	98.9%
Status `status`	4,093	98.4%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,088	98.3%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	4,017	96.6%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	3,964	95.3%
Decision `decision`	3,875	93.2%
Decision date `decision_date`	3,875	93.2%
Date received `received_date`	3,860	92.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,854	92.7%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,843	92.4%
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,843	92.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	3,704	89.1%
Postcode `postcode`	3,472	83.5%
Agent's email `agent_email`	3,447	82.9%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,924	70.3%

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

Chorley'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 Chorley 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=19&limit=5"

Council id for Chorley is 19. Full API reference for developers →

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