Hertfordshire

St Albans planning data

11,709 planning applications from St Albans. 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. 11 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

11,709

Applications

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Enforcement notices

1,043

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What St Albans decides

St Albans has approved 84.71% of the 9,331 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%).

84.71%

Approved, of 9,331 decided

Median days to a decision

91.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	11,709	100.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What St Albans 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 St Albans actually provides each one, across all 11,709 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 St Albans 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`	11,709	100.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	11,709	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	11,709	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	11,709	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	11,709	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	11,670	99.7%
Ward `ward`	11,658	99.6%
Status `status`	11,597	99.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	11,469	98.0%
Decision date `decision_date`	10,608	90.6%
Postcode `postcode`	10,569	90.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision `decision`	10,468	89.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	10,258	87.6%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	10,135	86.6%
Case officer `case_officer`	9,509	81.2%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	9,041	77.2%
Agent's name `agent_name`	8,687	74.2%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	224	1.9%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	224	1.9%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	0	0.0%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	0	0.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

St Albans'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 St Albans 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=81770&limit=5"

Council id for St Albans is 81770. Full API reference for developers →

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