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Wirral planning data

4,956 planning applications from Wirral. 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.

4,956

Applications

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Enforcement notices

557

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

What Wirral decides

Wirral has approved 86.63% of the 3,986 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%).

86.63%

Approved, of 3,986 decided

Median days to a decision

109.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	2,142	43.2%
Full	964	19.5%
Certificate	494	10.0%
Conditions	480	9.7%
Amendment	369	7.4%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Wirral 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 Wirral actually provides each one, across all 4,956 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 Wirral 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`	4,956	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	4,956	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,956	100.0%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	4,956	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	4,956	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	4,956	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,956	100.0%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,950	99.9%
Status `status`	4,951	99.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,951	99.9%
Ward `ward`	4,953	99.9%
Postcode `postcode`	4,704	94.9%
Decision `decision`	4,638	93.6%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,638	93.6%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,622	93.3%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,184	84.4%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,424	69.1%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,900	58.5%
Map coordinates (easting) `easting`	1,973	39.8%
Map coordinates (northing) `northing`	1,973	39.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	125	2.5%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	118	2.4%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	118	2.4%
Agent's email `agent_email`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Wirral'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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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=15&limit=5"

Council id for Wirral is 15. Full API reference for developers →

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