Application type tells you what someone wants to build. It doesn't tell you which consent path they're on - and for a lot of real questions, the path is the point. An outline application is land being positioned. Reserved matters is that land being delivered. A discharge of conditions is paperwork on a permission already won.
So the filter panel now has an Application route section: Full, Outline, Discharge, Reserved matters, Amendment, Prior approval, Lawful development certificate, and Pre-application, where councils publish them.
This allows two searches that type filters never could. Strip the noise: a keyword search with Discharge and Amendment excluded is proposals only, no paperwork. And watch the land: outline applications across a district are the earliest public sign of what is coming, and where.
A rebuilt filter panel around it
The panel itself was rebuilt in the same release. The Apply button now reads "Show N applications" and the N is live - it re-counts as you change any filter, so you know what you're getting before you commit. On phones, each section opens as a full-screen sheet rather than a cramped accordion.
And in the API
GET /v1/applications takes the same filter as a procedure parameter - procedure=outline, or a comma list. It was already on CSV exports; now the live endpoint matches. Parameters are in the developer docs.