Surrey

Spelthorne planning data

6,970 planning applications from Spelthorne. 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.

6,970

Applications

464

Enforcement notices

7,248

Appeals

1960–2026

Date range

What Spelthorne decides

Spelthorne has approved 83.59% of the 5,893 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%).

83.59%

Approved, of 5,893 decided

Median days to a decision

90.8

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	2,168	31.1%
Full	2,111	30.3%
Other	754	10.8%
Certificate	684	9.8%
Conditions	465	6.7%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Spelthorne 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 Spelthorne actually provides each one, across all 6,970 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 Spelthorne 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`	6,970	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	6,967	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	6,970	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	6,970	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	6,970	100.0%
Ward `ward`	6,952	99.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	6,753	96.9%
Decision `decision`	6,750	96.8%
Status `status`	6,709	96.3%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	6,709	96.3%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	6,700	96.1%
Agent's email `agent_email`	6,400	91.8%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	6,267	89.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	6,164	88.4%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	6,013	86.3%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,941	85.2%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	5,828	83.6%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	5,818	83.5%
Agent's name `agent_name`	5,227	75.0%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,971	57.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	3,222	46.2%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	247	3.5%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	247	3.5%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Spelthorne'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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Get this data

Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Spelthorne 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=418&limit=5"

Council id for Spelthorne is 418. Full API reference for developers →

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