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Exeter planning data

4,904 planning applications from Exeter. 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.

4,904

Applications

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Enforcement notices

5,190

Appeals

1989–2026

Date range

What Exeter decides

Exeter has approved 89.43% of the 3,671 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%).

89.43%

Approved, of 3,671 decided

Median days to a decision

81.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	1,707	34.8%
Tree	944	19.2%
Conditions	612	12.5%
Certificate	465	9.5%
Listed building	409	8.3%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Exeter 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 Exeter actually provides each one, across all 4,904 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 Exeter 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`	4,904	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	4,904	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	4,904	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	4,904	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,904	100.0%
Status `status`	4,894	99.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,887	99.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,877	99.4%
Ward `ward`	4,841	98.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,779	97.5%
Agent's email `agent_email`	4,747	96.8%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	4,699	95.8%
Decision `decision`	4,648	94.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,648	94.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,639	94.6%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	4,299	87.7%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,006	81.7%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,905	79.6%
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,637	74.2%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,021	41.2%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	109	2.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	109	2.2%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Exeter'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=256&limit=5"

Council id for Exeter is 256. Full API reference for developers →

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