Cumbria

Lake District planning data

651 planning applications from Lake District. 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. 13 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

651

Applications

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Enforcement notices

Appeals

2024–2026

Date range

What Lake District decides

Lake District has approved 82.76% of the 290 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%).

82.76%

Approved, of 290 decided

Median days to a decision

88.4

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	276	42.4%
Other	232	35.6%
Listed building	53	8.1%
Tree	41	6.3%
Certificate	27	4.1%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Lake District 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 Lake District actually provides each one, across all 651 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 Lake District 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`	651	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	651	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	651	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	651	100.0%
Status `status`	651	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	650	99.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	650	99.8%
Ward `ward`	649	99.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	645	99.1%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	636	97.7%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	636	97.7%
Postcode `postcode`	620	95.2%
Application type `application_type`	618	94.9%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	482	74.0%
Agent's email `agent_email`	464	71.3%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	451	69.3%
Agent's company `agent_company`	441	67.7%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	411	63.1%
Decision `decision`	390	59.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	390	59.9%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	370	56.8%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	350	53.8%
Standardised type `standard_type`	283	43.5%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	1	0.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	1	0.2%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Lake District's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

Officer's recommendation

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Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Lake District 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=304&limit=5"

Council id for Lake District is 304. Full API reference for developers →

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