Greater Manchester

Oldham planning data

5,040 planning applications from Oldham. 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.

5,040

Applications

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Enforcement notices

623

Appeals

2000–2026

Date range

What Oldham decides

Oldham has approved 89.79% of the 3,760 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%).

89.79%

Approved, of 3,760 decided

Median days to a decision

112.2

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,807	35.9%
Full	1,131	22.4%
Other	679	13.5%
Conditions	558	11.1%
Amendment	342	6.8%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Oldham 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 Oldham actually provides each one, across all 5,040 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 Oldham 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`	5,040	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	5,038	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,040	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,040	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,040	100.0%
Ward `ward`	5,029	99.8%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,996	99.1%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,968	98.6%
Status `status`	4,926	97.7%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,926	97.7%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	4,875	96.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,854	96.3%
Postcode `postcode`	4,702	93.3%
Decision `decision`	4,599	91.2%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,599	91.2%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,298	85.3%
Agent's email `agent_email`	4,084	81.0%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,073	80.8%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	4,028	79.9%
Standardised type `standard_type`	3,815	75.7%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,743	74.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	91	1.8%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	91	1.8%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Oldham'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

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Oldham 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=4&limit=5"

Council id for Oldham is 4. Full API reference for developers →

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