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Shetlands planning data

1,569 planning applications from Shetlands. 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. 12 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

1,569

Applications

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Enforcement notices

Appeals

2002–2026

Date range

What Shetlands decides

Shetlands has approved 98.82% of the 1,357 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%).

98.82%

Approved, of 1,357 decided

Median days to a decision

86.4

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	706	45.0%
Conditions	383	24.4%
Other	339	21.6%
Listed building	65	4.1%
Advertisement	26	1.7%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Shetlands 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 Shetlands actually provides each one, across all 1,569 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 Shetlands 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`	1,569	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	1,569	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	1,569	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	1,569	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	1,569	100.0%
Decision `decision`	1,486	94.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,486	94.7%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,447	92.2%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	1,429	91.1%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,428	91.0%
Status `status`	1,425	90.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	1,425	90.8%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Case officer `case_officer`	1,316	83.9%
Ward `ward`	1,199	76.4%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	1,145	73.0%
Agent's email `agent_email`	1,006	64.1%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,005	64.1%
Postcode `postcode`	933	59.5%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	906	57.7%
Agent's company `agent_company`	901	57.4%
Standardised type `standard_type`	545	34.7%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	2	0.1%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	2	0.1%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Shetlands'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 Shetlands 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=396&limit=5"

Council id for Shetlands is 396. Full API reference for developers →

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