Cambridgeshire

Fenland planning data

4,544 planning applications from Fenland. 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.

4,544

Applications

165

Enforcement notices

4,915

Appeals

1978–2026

Date range

What Fenland decides

Fenland has approved 88.1% of the 3,932 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%).

88.1%

Approved, of 3,932 decided

Median days to a decision

125.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	1,920	42.3%
Other	806	17.7%
Conditions	684	15.1%
Tree	493	10.8%
Amendment	351	7.7%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Fenland 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 Fenland actually provides each one, across all 4,544 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 Fenland 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`	4,544	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	4,543	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	4,544	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	4,544	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,544	100.0%
Ward `ward`	4,529	99.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	4,325	95.2%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,320	95.1%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	4,308	94.8%
Decision `decision`	4,307	94.8%
Status `status`	4,275	94.1%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,262	93.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,200	92.4%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,191	92.2%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,175	91.9%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Case officer `case_officer`	4,066	89.5%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	3,957	87.1%
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,726	82.0%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,591	79.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,851	62.7%
Postcode `postcode`	2,283	50.2%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	84	1.8%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	84	1.8%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Fenland'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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Get this data

Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Fenland 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=260&limit=5"

Council id for Fenland is 260. Full API reference for developers →

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