South Yorkshire

Doncaster planning data

8,287 planning applications from Doncaster. 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.

8,287

Applications

228

Enforcement notices

2,337

Appeals

1987–2026

Date range

What Doncaster decides

Doncaster has approved 89.09% of the 6,032 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%).

89.09%

Approved, of 6,032 decided

Median days to a decision

88.1

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	3,491	42.1%
Other	1,947	23.5%
Conditions	1,150	13.9%
Tree	877	10.6%
Certificate	466	5.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Doncaster 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 Doncaster actually provides each one, across all 8,287 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 Doncaster 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`	8,287	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	8,285	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	8,287	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	8,287	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	8,287	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	8,282	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	8,279	99.9%
Ward `ward`	8,255	99.6%
Status `status`	8,238	99.4%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	8,238	99.4%
Agent's email `agent_email`	8,220	99.2%
Decision `decision`	7,928	95.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	7,931	95.7%
Postcode `postcode`	7,791	94.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	7,667	92.5%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	7,040	85.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	6,633	80.0%
Agent's name `agent_name`	6,129	74.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	5,879	70.9%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	5,831	70.4%
Agent's company `agent_company`	4,976	60.0%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	104	1.3%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	104	1.3%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Doncaster'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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curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=45&limit=5"

Council id for Doncaster is 45. Full API reference for developers →

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