Staffordshire

South Staffordshire planning data

4,355 planning applications from South Staffordshire. 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.

4,355

Applications

195

Enforcement notices

753

Appeals

1999–2026

Date range

What South Staffordshire decides

South Staffordshire has approved 86.85% of the 3,811 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%).

86.85%

Approved, of 3,811 decided

Median days to a decision

90.2

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,231	28.3%
Full	826	19.0%
Tree	576	13.2%
Conditions	466	10.7%
Other	443	10.2%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What South Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire actually provides each one, across all 4,355 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 Staffordshire 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`	4,355	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	4,354	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	4,355	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	4,355	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,355	100.0%
Ward `ward`	4,350	99.9%
Agent's email `agent_email`	4,328	99.4%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,315	99.1%
Decision `decision`	4,064	93.3%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,064	93.3%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,043	92.8%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,039	92.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	3,976	91.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	3,777	86.7%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	3,616	83.0%
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,429	78.7%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	3,078	70.7%
Status `status`	2,861	65.7%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,861	65.7%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,404	32.2%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,294	29.7%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	128	2.9%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	128	2.9%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

South Staffordshire'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 Staffordshire 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=415&limit=5"

Council id for South Staffordshire is 415. Full API reference for developers →

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