Devon

South West Devon planning data

1,982 planning applications from South West Devon. 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.

1,982

Applications

Enforcement notices

Appeals

2020–2026

Date range

What South West Devon decides

South West Devon has approved 83.5% of the 1,406 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%).

83.5%

Approved, of 1,406 decided

Median days to a decision

86.5

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	445	22.5%
Other	418	21.1%
Householder	337	17.0%
Tree	259	13.1%
Conditions	185	9.3%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What South West Devon 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 West Devon actually provides each one, across all 1,982 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 West Devon 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`	1,982	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	1,982	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	1,982	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	1,982	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	1,982	100.0%
Status `status`	1,982	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	1,982	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	1,980	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	1,981	99.9%
Ward `ward`	1,981	99.9%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,969	99.3%
Decision `decision`	1,847	93.2%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,824	92.0%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,782	89.9%
Postcode `postcode`	1,547	78.1%
Standardised type `standard_type`	936	47.2%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	61	3.1%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	61	3.1%
Agent's company `agent_company`	0	0.0%
Agent's email `agent_email`	0	0.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

South West Devon's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

Agent's phone Alternative reference Type of development Officer's recommendation

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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=416&limit=5"

Council id for South West Devon is 416. Full API reference for developers →

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