North Yorkshire

York planning data

8,928 planning applications from York. 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. 12 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

8,928

Applications

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Enforcement notices

975

Appeals

1998–2026

Date range

What York decides

York has approved 86.45% of the 6,391 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%).

86.45%

Approved, of 6,391 decided

Median days to a decision

93.6

Average days

What it mostly decides

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

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	3,881	43.5%
Conditions	1,298	14.5%
Tree	1,285	14.4%
Other	981	11.0%
Listed building	634	7.1%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What York 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 York actually provides each one, across all 8,928 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 York 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`	8,928	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	8,925	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	8,928	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	8,928	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	8,928	100.0%
Ward `ward`	8,923	99.9%
Agent's email `agent_email`	8,910	99.8%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	8,887	99.5%
Decision `decision`	8,395	94.0%
Decision date `decision_date`	8,395	94.0%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	8,281	92.8%
Case officer `case_officer`	8,098	90.7%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Status `status`	7,692	86.2%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	7,692	86.2%
Postcode `postcode`	7,344	82.3%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	7,076	79.3%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	6,907	77.4%
Agent's name `agent_name`	6,829	76.5%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	6,732	75.4%
Standardised type `standard_type`	6,285	70.4%
Agent's company `agent_company`	6,113	68.5%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	35	0.4%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	35	0.4%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

York'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=57&limit=5"

Council id for York is 57. Full API reference for developers →

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