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Plymouth planning data

5,871 planning applications from Plymouth. 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.

5,871

Applications

Enforcement notices

399

Appeals

1990–2026

Date range

What Plymouth decides

Plymouth has approved 93.06% of the 3,804 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%).

93.06%

Approved, of 3,804 decided

Median days to a decision

78.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	2,252	38.4%
Other	1,106	18.8%
Tree	860	14.6%
Conditions	508	8.7%
Amendment	383	6.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Plymouth 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 Plymouth actually provides each one, across all 5,871 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 Plymouth 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`	5,871	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,871	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,871	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,871	100.0%
Ward `ward`	5,870	100.0%
Agent's email `agent_email`	5,858	99.8%
Application type `application_type`	5,860	99.8%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,855	99.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	5,823	99.2%
Decision `decision`	5,560	94.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	5,562	94.7%
Postcode `postcode`	5,509	93.8%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	5,414	92.2%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,400	92.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,364	91.4%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Status `status`	4,998	85.1%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,988	85.0%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,919	83.8%
Agent's company `agent_company`	4,849	82.6%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,137	36.4%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	46	0.8%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	46	0.8%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Plymouth'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=107&limit=5"

Council id for Plymouth is 107. Full API reference for developers →

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