Suffolk

West Suffolk planning data

9,223 planning applications from West Suffolk. 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. 16 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

9,223

Applications

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Enforcement notices

791

Appeals

1974–2026

Date range

What West Suffolk decides

West Suffolk has approved 93.21% of the 6,512 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%).

93.21%

Approved, of 6,512 decided

Median days to a decision

96.4

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Other	2,182	23.7%
Householder	1,986	21.5%
Full	1,499	16.3%
Tree	1,386	15.0%
Conditions	1,242	13.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What West Suffolk 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 Suffolk actually provides each one, across all 9,223 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 Suffolk 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`	9,223	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	9,223	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	9,223	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	9,223	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	9,223	100.0%
Ward `ward`	9,223	100.0%
Agent's email `agent_email`	9,178	99.5%
Status `status`	9,162	99.3%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	9,158	99.3%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	9,092	98.6%
Case officer `case_officer`	9,087	98.5%
Decision date `decision_date`	8,795	95.4%
Decision `decision`	8,794	95.3%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	8,760	95.0%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	8,705	94.4%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	8,331	90.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	8,132	88.2%
Postcode `postcode`	7,587	82.3%
Agent's name `agent_name`	7,232	78.4%
Standardised type `standard_type`	6,785	73.6%
Agent's company `agent_company`	6,465	70.1%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	163	1.8%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	163	1.8%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

West Suffolk'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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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=472&limit=5"

Council id for West Suffolk is 472. Full API reference for developers →

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