Lincolnshire

West Lindsey planning data

4,219 planning applications from West Lindsey. 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.

4,219

Applications

Enforcement notices

344

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What West Lindsey decides

West Lindsey has approved 89.88% of the 2,687 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%).

89.88%

Approved, of 2,687 decided

Median days to a decision

73.9

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	911	21.6%
Other	884	21.0%
Householder	874	20.7%
Conditions	570	13.5%
Tree	344	8.2%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What West Lindsey 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 West Lindsey actually provides each one, across all 4,219 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 West Lindsey actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	4,219	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	4,219	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	4,219	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	4,219	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,219	100.0%
Status `status`	4,219	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,219	100.0%
Address `address`	4,214	99.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,214	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,197	99.5%
Ward `ward`	4,147	98.3%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	4,144	98.2%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	4,144	98.2%
Decision `decision`	3,859	91.5%
Postcode `postcode`	3,860	91.5%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision date `decision_date`	3,686	87.4%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,486	82.6%
Standardised type `standard_type`	3,323	78.8%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,718	64.4%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,894	44.9%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,768	41.9%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	25	0.6%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	25	0.6%
Agent's email `agent_email`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

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

Agent's phone Type of development Officer's recommendation

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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=465&limit=5"

Council id for West Lindsey is 465. Full API reference for developers →

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