West Yorkshire

Wakefield planning data

7,645 planning applications from Wakefield. 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.

7,645

Applications

154

Enforcement notices

957

Appeals

1993–2026

Date range

What Wakefield decides

Wakefield has approved 88.52% of the 5,638 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%).

88.52%

Approved, of 5,638 decided

Median days to a decision

121.1

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	3,839	50.2%
Conditions	1,153	15.1%
Other	1,108	14.5%
Tree	680	8.9%
Certificate	491	6.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Wakefield 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 Wakefield actually provides each one, across all 7,645 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 Wakefield 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`	7,645	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	7,645	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	7,645	100.0%
Ward `ward`	7,643	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	7,635	99.9%
Application type `application_type`	7,620	99.7%
Agent's email `agent_email`	7,575	99.1%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	7,524	98.4%
Case officer `case_officer`	7,302	95.5%
Status `status`	7,284	95.3%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	7,284	95.3%
Postcode `postcode`	7,076	92.6%
Decision `decision`	6,935	90.7%
Decision date `decision_date`	6,934	90.7%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	6,899	90.2%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	6,716	87.8%
Agent's name `agent_name`	6,041	79.0%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	5,937	77.7%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	5,856	76.6%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,036	39.7%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,554	20.3%

Rarely or never published

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

Not published by this council

Wakefield'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=43&limit=5"

Council id for Wakefield is 43. Full API reference for developers →

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