Kent

Dover planning data

6,451 planning applications from Dover. 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. 14 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

6,451

Applications

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Enforcement notices

609

Appeals

2003–2026

Date range

What Dover decides

Dover has approved 92.91% of the 5,075 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%).

92.91%

Approved, of 5,075 decided

Median days to a decision

96.9

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	2,429	37.7%
Other	1,884	29.2%
Tree	893	13.8%
Amendment	503	7.8%
Listed building	377	5.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Dover 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 Dover actually provides each one, across all 6,451 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 Dover 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`	6,451	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	6,451	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	6,451	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	6,441	99.8%
Application type `application_type`	6,416	99.5%
Ward `ward`	6,406	99.3%
Case officer `case_officer`	6,402	99.2%
Status `status`	6,387	99.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	6,387	99.0%
Decision date `decision_date`	6,049	93.8%
Decision `decision`	6,047	93.7%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	5,943	92.1%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,921	91.8%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,823	90.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	5,377	83.4%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,648	72.1%
Agent's company `agent_company`	4,130	64.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,533	23.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	68	1.1%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	68	1.1%
Agent's email `agent_email`	24	0.4%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Dover'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=228&limit=5"

Council id for Dover is 228. Full API reference for developers →

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