West Midlands

Coventry planning data

5,831 planning applications from Coventry. 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. 15 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

5,831

Applications

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Enforcement notices

796

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Coventry decides

Coventry has approved 83.26% of the 4,971 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%).

83.26%

Approved, of 4,971 decided

Median days to a decision

72.2

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,758	30.1%
Other	1,638	28.1%
Conditions	743	12.7%
Certificate	678	11.6%
Tree	439	7.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Coventry 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 Coventry actually provides each one, across all 5,831 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 Coventry 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`	5,831	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	5,831	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,830	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,831	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,830	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,831	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,828	99.9%
Status `status`	5,824	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,824	99.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,821	99.8%
Ward `ward`	5,770	99.0%
Decision `decision`	5,586	95.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	5,585	95.8%
Postcode `postcode`	5,529	94.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	5,515	94.6%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,708	80.7%
Agent's company `agent_company`	4,311	73.9%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,710	46.5%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	2,514	43.1%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	2,514	43.1%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	169	2.9%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	165	2.8%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	165	2.8%
Agent's email `agent_email`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Coventry'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 phone Type of development Officer's recommendation

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Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Coventry 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=78&limit=5"

Council id for Coventry is 78. Full API reference for developers →

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