Greater Manchester

Wigan planning data

5,127 planning applications from Wigan. 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. 11 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

5,127

Applications

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Enforcement notices

453

Appeals

1975–2026

Date range

What Wigan decides

Wigan has approved 85.57% of the 3,631 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%).

85.57%

Approved, of 3,631 decided

Median days to a decision

-196.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,434	28.0%
Conditions	940	18.3%
Other	896	17.5%
Full	644	12.6%
Certificate	443	8.6%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Wigan 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 Wigan actually provides each one, across all 5,127 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 Wigan 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`	5,127	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	5,127	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,127	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	5,127	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,127	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,124	99.9%
Agent's email `agent_email`	5,107	99.6%
Ward `ward`	5,058	98.7%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,027	98.0%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,696	91.6%
Decision `decision`	4,693	91.5%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	4,486	87.5%
Postcode `postcode`	4,242	82.7%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,183	81.6%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	4,144	80.8%
Status `status`	4,047	78.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,047	78.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,000	78.0%
Standardised type `standard_type`	3,988	77.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	3,821	74.5%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	316	6.2%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	90	1.8%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	90	1.8%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Wigan'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

Connect it once with your email address, then ask questions like "which extensions were refused in Wigan 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=10&limit=5"

Council id for Wigan is 10. Full API reference for developers →

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