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Croydon planning data

13,004 planning applications from Croydon. 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.

13,004

Applications

381

Enforcement notices

2,938

Appeals

1994–2026

Date range

What Croydon decides

Croydon has approved 80.1% of the 11,363 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%).

80.1%

Approved, of 11,363 decided

Median days to a decision

83.2

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	3,484	26.8%
Householder	2,982	22.9%
Full	2,780	21.4%
Conditions	1,870	14.4%
Tree	1,298	10.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Croydon 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 Croydon actually provides each one, across all 13,004 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 Croydon 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`	13,004	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	13,004	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	13,004	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	13,004	100.0%
Ward `ward`	12,997	99.9%
Application type `application_type`	12,982	99.8%
Agent's email `agent_email`	12,895	99.2%
Case officer `case_officer`	12,904	99.2%
Status `status`	12,874	99.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	12,874	99.0%
Postcode `postcode`	12,761	98.1%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	12,515	96.2%
Decision `decision`	12,449	95.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	12,449	95.7%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	12,414	95.5%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	12,419	95.5%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	12,326	94.8%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	11,386	87.6%
Agent's company `agent_company`	10,369	79.7%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	4,861	37.4%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	499	3.8%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	499	3.8%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Croydon'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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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=81480&limit=5"

Council id for Croydon is 81480. Full API reference for developers →

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