Lancashire

Lancashire planning data

242 planning applications from Lancashire. 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. 8 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

242

Applications

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Enforcement notices

Appeals

2022–2026

Date range

Limited data for this council.

We hold only 242 applications here. Treat an absent record as "not published to us", never as "no such application".

What Lancashire decides

Lancashire has approved 94.07% of the 135 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%).

94.07%

Approved, of 135 decided

102

Median days to a decision

148.4

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	242	100.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Lancashire 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 Lancashire actually provides each one, across all 242 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 Lancashire actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Council reference `reference`	242	100.0%
Address `address`	241	99.6%
Date received `received_date`	241	99.6%
Status `status`	241	99.6%
Description of the works `description`	240	99.2%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	239	98.8%
Case officer `case_officer`	235	97.1%
Agent's name `agent_name`	225	93.0%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	201	83.1%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	201	83.1%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	198	81.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	180	74.4%
Decision `decision`	177	73.1%
Decision date `decision_date`	175	72.3%
Postcode `postcode`	96	39.7%
Ward `ward`	81	33.5%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	6	2.5%
Agent's email `agent_email`	4	1.7%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Application type `application_type`	0	0.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	0	0.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

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

Agent's phone Alternative reference Type of development Officer's recommendation

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Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Lancashire 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=305&limit=5"

Council id for Lancashire is 305. Full API reference for developers →

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