Bedfordshire

Luton planning data

4,544 planning applications from Luton. 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. 18 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

4,544

Applications

297

Enforcement notices

1,403

Appeals

1985–2026

Date range

What Luton decides

Luton has approved 81.13% of the 4,166 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%).

81.13%

Approved, of 4,166 decided

Median days to a decision

-59.2

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	2,260	49.7%
Full	839	18.5%
Certificate	533	11.7%
Conditions	513	11.3%
Amendment	191	4.2%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Luton 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 Luton 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 Luton 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%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,539	99.9%
Ward `ward`	4,541	99.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,502	99.1%
Agent's email `agent_email`	4,468	98.3%
Status `status`	4,467	98.3%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,466	98.3%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,378	96.3%
Decision `decision`	4,352	95.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,352	95.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,334	95.4%
Postcode `postcode`	4,230	93.1%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	4,201	92.5%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,181	92.0%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Standardised type `standard_type`	3,099	68.2%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	225	5.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	225	5.0%
Agent's company `agent_company`	81	1.8%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	1	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Luton'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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Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

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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=314&limit=5"

Council id for Luton is 314. Full API reference for developers →

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