Lancashire

South Ribble planning data

3,416 planning applications from South Ribble. 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.

3,416

Applications

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Enforcement notices

3,905

Appeals

2005–2026

Date range

What South Ribble decides

South Ribble has approved 95.05% of the 2,668 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%).

95.05%

Approved, of 2,668 decided

Median days to a decision

-133.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	949	27.8%
Full	633	18.5%
Other	541	15.8%
Conditions	408	11.9%
Tree	285	8.3%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What South Ribble 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 South Ribble actually provides each one, across all 3,416 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 South Ribble 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`	3,416	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	3,416	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	3,416	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	3,416	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	3,416	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	3,414	99.9%
Ward `ward`	3,399	99.5%
Agent's email `agent_email`	3,368	98.6%
Decision `decision`	3,296	96.5%
Decision date `decision_date`	3,296	96.5%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,256	95.3%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	3,252	95.2%
Postcode `postcode`	3,146	92.1%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Case officer `case_officer`	2,975	87.1%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	2,857	83.6%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,681	78.5%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,571	75.3%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,499	73.2%
Agent's company `agent_company`	2,338	68.4%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Status `status`	223	6.5%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	223	6.5%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	11	0.3%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	11	0.3%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

South Ribble'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 South Ribble 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=27&limit=5"

Council id for South Ribble is 27. Full API reference for developers →

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