Kent

Thanet planning data

5,131 planning applications from Thanet. 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. 14 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

5,131

Applications

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Enforcement notices

5,480

Appeals

1995–2026

Date range

What Thanet decides

Thanet has approved 91.33% of the 4,497 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%).

91.33%

Approved, of 4,497 decided

Median days to a decision

110.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	1,435	28.0%
Householder	1,248	24.3%
Other	1,158	22.6%
Tree	610	11.9%
Listed building	374	7.3%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Thanet 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 Thanet actually provides each one, across all 5,131 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 Thanet 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`	5,131	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	5,131	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,131	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,131	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,131	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,080	99.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,060	98.6%
Status `status`	5,057	98.6%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,057	98.6%
Ward `ward`	5,051	98.4%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,036	98.1%
Decision `decision`	4,867	94.9%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,862	94.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,865	94.8%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	4,369	85.1%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,176	81.4%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	3,972	77.4%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,884	75.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	3,222	62.8%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,148	41.9%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	679	13.2%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	679	13.2%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	95	1.9%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	95	1.9%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2	0.0%

Not published by this council

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

Type of development Officer's recommendation

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Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Thanet 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=443&limit=5"

Council id for Thanet is 443. Full API reference for developers →

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