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St Helens planning data

3,256 planning applications from St Helens. 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. 15 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

3,256

Applications

Enforcement notices

323

Appeals

2008–2026

Date range

What St Helens decides

St Helens has approved 93.81% of the 2,680 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%).

93.81%

Approved, of 2,680 decided

Median days to a decision

94.2

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,047	32.2%
Full	663	20.4%
Conditions	557	17.1%
Other	309	9.5%
Certificate	264	8.1%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What St Helens 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 Helens actually provides each one, across all 3,256 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 Helens 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`	3,256	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	3,256	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	3,256	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	3,256	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	3,256	100.0%
Ward `ward`	3,239	99.5%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	3,229	99.2%
Status `status`	3,228	99.1%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	3,228	99.1%
Agent's email `agent_email`	3,221	98.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	3,044	93.5%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,982	91.6%
Decision `decision`	2,980	91.5%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,965	91.1%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,953	90.7%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,737	84.1%
Postcode `postcode`	2,674	82.1%
Agent's company `agent_company`	2,554	78.4%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,545	78.2%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,085	33.3%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	43	1.3%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	43	1.3%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

St Helens'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

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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=14&limit=5"

Council id for St Helens is 14. Full API reference for developers →

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