Surrey

Woking planning data

5,285 planning applications from Woking. 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. 18 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

5,285

Applications

103

Enforcement notices

5,930

Appeals

1987–2026

Date range

What Woking decides

Woking has approved 84.04% of the 4,631 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%).

84.04%

Approved, of 4,631 decided

Decision times can't be measured here — Woking doesn't publish both a received and a decision date on enough records. The nationwide range across councils that do is 31 to 299 days.

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Householder	1,799	34.0%
Tree	1,190	22.5%
Full	651	12.3%
Conditions	518	9.8%
Other	475	9.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Woking 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 Woking actually provides each one, across all 5,285 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 Woking 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`	5,285	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	5,285	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	5,285	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	5,278	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	5,278	99.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	5,278	99.9%
Ward `ward`	5,279	99.9%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	5,275	99.8%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	5,274	99.8%
Status `status`	5,277	99.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	5,277	99.8%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	5,264	99.6%
Agent's email `agent_email`	5,163	97.7%
Decision `decision`	4,974	94.1%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,974	94.1%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	4,916	93.0%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,900	92.7%
Postcode `postcode`	4,873	92.2%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	4,257	80.5%
Agent's name `agent_name`	4,254	80.5%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,733	32.8%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	155	2.9%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

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

Map coordinates (easting) Map coordinates (northing) Date received

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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=479&limit=5"

Council id for Woking is 479. Full API reference for developers →

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