Greater Manchester

Manchester planning data

13,498 planning applications from Manchester. 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.

13,498

Applications

259

Enforcement notices

1,763

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Manchester decides

Manchester has approved 88.13% of the 11,197 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%).

88.13%

Approved, of 11,197 decided

Decision times can't be measured here — Manchester doesn't publish both a received and a decision date on enough records. The nationwide range across councils that do is 31 to 299 days.

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Conditions	4,128	30.6%
Householder	2,646	19.6%
Full	2,402	17.8%
Amendment	1,023	7.6%
Tree	778	5.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Manchester 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 Manchester actually provides each one, across all 13,498 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 Manchester 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`	13,498	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	13,498	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	13,496	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	13,495	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	13,496	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	13,498	100.0%
Status `status`	13,498	100.0%
Ward `ward`	13,496	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	13,477	99.8%
Decision `decision`	13,184	97.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	13,184	97.7%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	13,059	96.7%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	12,804	94.9%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	11,640	86.2%
Standardised type `standard_type`	11,453	84.8%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	11,114	82.3%
Postcode `postcode`	5,786	42.9%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Manchester'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 company Agent's email Agent's phone Appeal decision Type of development Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Officer's recommendation Date received

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 Manchester 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=3&limit=5"

Council id for Manchester is 3. Full API reference for developers →

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