How long planning decisions take, council by council

Every council we monitor, ranked by how quickly it decides planning applications and how many it approves, from the decisions made in the twelve months to September 2026. Days run from validation to decision, the clock councils report against; each council's page also shows the wait from receipt. Councils whose register data fails our checks are listed at the foot with the reason. How the figures are made.

54 daysmedian from validation to decision, 56 from receipt

66%decided within eight weeks

90%approved

561,901decisions in the twelve months to September 2026

388 councils published, fastest first.

#	Council	Median days	Within 8 weeks	Approved	Decisions	Change
1	Derbyshire County Council	15	78%	90%	148	–
2	Fareham	29	83%	98%	1,027	↑ 7
3	Redbridge	32	83%	80%	3,492	↑ 16
4	New Forest Park	33	79%	95%	1,367	↑ 4
5	Monmouthshire	35	60%	95%	717	↑ 6
6	South Somerset	38	70%	95%	1,694	↓ 5
7	Broads	38	67%	98%	272	↑ 5
8	Wolverhampton	38	69%	90%	1,040	↑ 10
9	North Ayrshire	39	63%	97%	501	↑ 17
10	Cheltenham	39	64%	97%	1,763	↑ 35
11	Rushmoor	40	69%	92%	429	↑ 7
12	Dorset	40	78%	92%	5,973	↓ 5
13	Leicestershire County Council	40	83%	99%	125	–
14	Bristol	41	65%	87%	2,996	↑ 9
15	Torfaen	41	55%	93%	437	level
16	Camden	41	66%	96%	4,404	↑ 43
17	Castle Point	42	66%	89%	566	↓ 10
18	Stockport	42	77%	94%	2,018	↓ 9
19	Darlington	42	65%	95%	913	↑ 15
20	Richmond Upon Thames	42	79%	88%	4,066	↑ 19
21	South Ribble	42	68%	97%	884	↑ 10
22	East Renfrewshire	42	59%	92%	682	↑ 65
23	Fermanagh And Omagh	42	61%	98%	876	↑ 285
24	Guernsey	43	56%	94%	963	–
25	Fife	43	56%	96%	3,052	↑ 8
26	Edinburgh	43	61%	88%	4,582	↑ 10
27	North Lincs	44	83%	91%	1,041	↑ 26
28	Lincoln	44	69%	94%	698	↑ 38
29	Newark And Sherwood	44	60%	95%	1,350	↑ 87
30	North Yorkshire	45	57%	100%	44	↑ 153
31	Bury	45	61%	87%	1,039	↑ 205
32	North Hertfordshire	45	76%	93%	1,630	↓ 5
33	North Norfolk	45	57%	96%	1,864	↓ 5
34	East Devon	45	74%	91%	1,959	↑ 52
35	Exeter	45	61%	89%	1,147	↑ 54
36	Aberdeen	45	67%	93%	1,166	↑ 54
37	Shepway	46	67%	86%	1,383	↑ 34
38	Lichfield	46	55%	83%	824	↑ 30
39	East Lothian	46	51%	97%	1,127	↑ 87
40	Worcester	46	68%	92%	709	↑ 39
41	Redcar And Cleveland	46	62%	96%	817	↑ 74
42	Canterbury	46	76%	97%	1,461	↑ 58
43	Bolsover	46	51%	97%	426	↑ 63
44	Cotswold	46	58%	94%	2,980	↓ 4
45	Clackmannanshire	46	59%	96%	222	↑ 60
46	Pendle	47	69%	92%	735	↑ 10
47	Norwich	47	71%	96%	1,043	↑ 31
48	Barking And Dagenham	47	69%	81%	1,704	↑ 123
49	Shropshire	47	77%	92%	2,968	↓ 39
50	North Kesteven	47	59%	98%	1,267	↑ 7
51	Redditch	47	63%	91%	284	↑ 25
52	Wandsworth	47	50%	90%	3,859	↑ 20
53	Doncaster	47	57%	90%	1,471	↑ 6
54	Sedgemoor	47	68%	91%	1,052	↑ 13
55	Argyll	47	51%	98%	1,302	↓ 53
56	Merthyr Tydfil	48	69%	93%	303	↓ 24
57	Telford	48	95%	93%	919	↑ 55
58	Enfield	48	57%	80%	3,139	↑ 13
59	Swindon	48	76%	93%	1,520	↑ 80
60	Braintree	48	61%	89%	2,108	–
61	Dacorum	48	73%	88%	1,635	↓ 12
62	Craven	48	58%	87%	584	↑ 4
63	Wychavon	48	57%	87%	2,065	↓ 40
64	South Oxfordshire	48	59%	94%	3,044	↓ 59
65	Ipswich	49	65%	94%	831	↑ 57
66	North Tyneside	49	72%	91%	1,120	↑ 17
67	Watford	49	68%	84%	881	↓ 19
68	Tendring	49	59%	90%	1,744	↓ 44
69	Broxtowe	49	54%	95%	799	↑ 15
70	Lancaster	49	63%	86%	1,318	↓ 17
71	Gosport	49	65%	97%	314	↑ 23
72	West Devon	49	49%	85%	725	↑ 60
73	East Cambridgeshire	49	63%	93%	1,105	↑ 31
74	West Oxfordshire	49	54%	96%	2,056	↓ 44
75	West Sussex County Council	49	75%	100%	55	–
76	Uttlesford	49	62%	81%	2,493	↓ 11
77	Ashfield	49	74%	82%	682	↑ 85
78	Lake District	49	67%	90%	1,371	↑ 2
79	Mendip	49	61%	85%	1,743	↑ 20
80	Stroud	49	53%	90%	1,843	↓ 28
81	Southwark	49	59%	94%	3,404	↓ 12
82	Wiltshire	49	71%	95%	6,529	↓ 13
83	Chester	49	62%	94%	1,935	↑ 238
84	Wyre Forest	49	60%	94%	849	↓ 22
85	Amber Valley	49	58%	97%	867	↑ 68
86	South Tyneside	49	53%	95%	602	↑ 120
87	South Norfolk Broadland	49	56%	95%	3,242	↓ 46
88	Islington	49	60%	92%	2,555	↑ 79
89	Dumfries	49	56%	93%	1,368	↓ 4
90	Teignbridge	50	56%	84%	1,194	↑ 96
91	Stevenage	50	78%	94%	489	↑ 36
92	Tunbridge Wells	50	62%	95%	1,548	↑ 120
93	Leeds	50	82%	83%	4,714	↓ 43
94	Barnet	50	70%	81%	4,331	↓ 80
95	Eastleigh	50	60%	93%	1,113	↑ 19
96	Cannock Chase	50	75%	89%	378	↓ 42
97	Charnwood	50	62%	93%	1,822	–
98	Harrogate	50	60%	92%	1,841	↓ 26
99	Test Valley	50	64%	93%	1,545	↓ 83
100	South Hams	50	56%	90%	1,852	↓ 8
101	Plymouth	50	55%	95%	1,476	↓ 5
102	Northumberland County	50	68%	91%	3,474	↑ 97
103	Harlow	50	69%	91%	521	↑ 65
104	Babergh Mid Suffolk	50	57%	92%	3,604	↓ 62
105	Peak District	50	63%	88%	950	↓ 102
106	Sunderland	50	57%	88%	1,236	↑ 12
107	Malvern Hills	50	55%	87%	1,366	↓ 72
108	North East Lincs	50	71%	96%	703	↓ 77
109	Rotherham	50	59%	89%	1,365	↑ 45
110	Bath	50	59%	97%	3,438	↓ 55
111	Ribble Valley	50	45%	84%	910	↑ 19
112	Isle Of Man	50	40%	92%	851	–
113	Neath	50	48%	96%	612	↑ 53
114	Renfrewshire	50	51%	97%	697	↑ 5
115	Greater Cambridge	50	59%	88%	39	–
116	North Lanarkshire	50	48%	97%	924	↓ 84
117	Cardiff	50	56%	96%	2,231	↓ 106
118	South Cambridgeshire	51	65%	95%	3,176	↓ 28
119	North Devon	51	51%	96%	1,264	↑ 9
120	East Riding	51	50%	91%	3,720	↓ 7
121	Coventry	51	65%	83%	2,113	↑ 57
122	Three Rivers	51	56%	90%	1,732	↑ 29
123	Kings Lynn	51	61%	90%	1,665	↓ 106
124	Cornwall	51	82%	92%	6,054	↓ 61
125	Chichester	51	48%	91%	1,862	↑ 63
126	Cambridge	51	67%	95%	2,659	↓ 38
127	Flintshire	51	71%	90%	919	↓ 67
128	Wealden	51	50%	86%	2,574	↓ 37
129	West Lindsey	51	55%	93%	949	↓ 34
130	New Forest District	51	53%	89%	963	↑ 63
131	Gloucester	51	51%	84%	687	↓ 127
132	Lewes	51	44%	92%	413	↑ 92
133	Mid Sussex	51	57%	94%	2,125	↓ 72
134	Forest Of Dean	51	50%	95%	873	↓ 17
135	Swansea	51	51%	84%	1,719	↑ 50
136	Perth	51	43%	92%	1,160	↑ 105
137	Falkirk	51	47%	98%	506	level
138	Carmarthenshire	51	49%	81%	1,196	↓ 95
139	Epsom And Ewell	52	81%	87%	1,238	↓ 102
140	Arun	52	54%	87%	1,643	↑ 23
141	Dover	52	58%	92%	1,299	↑ 62
142	Gravesham	52	57%	83%	1,034	↓ 39
143	Windsor And Maidenhead	52	58%	81%	2,089	–
144	Newcastle Under Lyme	52	74%	94%	801	↓ 48
145	Erewash	52	56%	91%	687	↑ 98
146	Sefton	52	71%	92%	1,601	↓ 85
147	Basingstoke	52	60%	94%	1,586	↓ 110
148	Tameside	52	55%	87%	975	↑ 2
149	Peterborough	52	68%	88%	1,407	↓ 74
150	Nottingham	52	53%	94%	1,320	↑ 110
151	Burnley	52	51%	86%	446	↑ 104
152	Oxford	52	55%	92%	2,583	↓ 132
153	Halton	52	60%	95%	393	↓ 89
154	Yorkshire Dales	52	61%	96%	558	↓ 73
155	Stratford On Avon	52	46%	93%	2,618	↓ 62
156	South Ayrshire	52	52%	98%	678	↓ 109
157	Herefordshire	52	51%	94%	2,966	↑ 26
158	Adur	52	54%	94%	568	↑ 56
159	Fylde	52	47%	96%	655	↓ 89
160	Solihull	52	52%	90%	1,807	↓ 59
161	Rugby	52	48%	95%	837	↓ 136
162	Medway	53	65%	90%	1,503	↓ 67
163	Mid Devon	53	81%	94%	928	↓ 70
164	Lewisham	53	54%	88%	2,265	↓ 154
165	Rutland	53	67%	90%	1,140	↓ 92
166	Sevenoaks	53	48%	89%	2,985	↑ 31
167	Chelmsford	53	75%	87%	2,216	↑ 3
168	Stockton On Tees	53	53%	97%	930	↓ 7
169	Sandwell	53	44%	89%	1,368	↓ 17
170	Wokingham	53	50%	92%	2,442	↑ 22
171	Torridge	53	50%	93%	939	↑ 5
172	Caerphilly	53	54%	77%	773	↑ 26
173	Tewkesbury	53	51%	89%	847	↑ 130
174	South Gloucestershire	53	53%	88%	2,558	↓ 36
175	Blackburn	53	52%	96%	918	↓ 50
176	South Holland	53	51%	84%	982	↑ 46
177	Westmorland And Furness	53	53%	95%	2,162	↓ 156
178	Tandridge	53	61%	84%	1,391	↓ 142
179	Newcastle Upon Tyne	53	47%	92%	1,942	↑ 37
180	Basildon	53	49%	90%	1,165	↓ 72
181	Kent County Council	53	58%	100%	91	–
182	Brecon Beacons	53	58%	88%	416	↑ 123
183	Westminster	53	48%	89%	7,959	↓ 177
184	Hastings	54	45%	85%	583	↑ 22
185	Sutton	54	51%	87%	1,691	↑ 19
186	Dartford	54	58%	78%	930	↑ 61
187	Pembrokeshire	54	72%	84%	855	↑ 18
188	Surrey Heath	54	65%	89%	1,329	↓ 174
189	Newham	54	72%	86%	2,378	↓ 125
190	Oadby And Wigston	54	37%	71%	402	↑ 36
191	Sheffield	54	56%	89%	3,022	↓ 58
192	Croydon	54	53%	77%	3,061	↓ 118
193	Southampton	54	68%	94%	1,112	↓ 95
194	Durham	54	48%	94%	2,807	↓ 97
195	Ealing	54	63%	86%	3,015	↓ 87
196	Derbyshire Dales	54	55%	91%	930	↓ 35
197	North Somerset	54	55%	94%	1,687	↑ 1
198	Dudley	54	64%	83%	1,385	↓ 3
199	East Suffolk	54	49%	95%	3,129	↓ 58
200	Middlesbrough	54	57%	84%	493	↓ 111
201	Knowsley	54	62%	95%	434	↓ 59
202	Vale Of White Horse	54	49%	95%	2,079	↓ 189
203	Blackpool	54	47%	87%	413	↓ 120
204	Torbay	54	37%	84%	893	↑ 7
205	Stirling	54	43%	99%	713	↑ 40
206	Bedford	54	52%	81%	1,626	↓ 77
207	Dundee	54	46%	97%	705	↓ 86
208	West Lothian	54	34%	80%	767	↓ 60
209	Scottish Borders	54	48%	94%	1,089	↓ 159
210	Conwy	54	26%	87%	669	↓ 101
211	Suffolk County Council	54	47%	98%	129	–
212	North York Moors	55	49%	97%	643	↓ 40
213	West Somerset	55	50%	88%	263	↓ 31
214	Brent	55	52%	79%	2,447	↓ 81
215	Kingston Upon Thames	55	43%	84%	2,597	↑ 16
216	Isle Of Wight	55	48%	93%	1,614	↑ 17
217	Waltham Forest	55	53%	79%	2,758	↑ 21
218	Northumberland Park	55	67%	86%	93	↓ 16
219	Swale	55	72%	93%	1,124	–
220	Waverley	55	72%	89%	2,117	↑ 17
221	Hounslow	55	57%	84%	2,904	↓ 121
222	Thurrock	55	55%	87%	1,260	↓ 14
223	Chorley	55	57%	89%	940	↓ 83
224	Milton Keynes	55	45%	85%	2,035	↓ 50
225	Trafford	55	46%	87%	2,284	↓ 52
226	Spelthorne	55	54%	86%	1,010	↓ 16
227	Fenland	55	33%	87%	887	↑ 101
228	St Helens	55	40%	95%	805	↓ 3
229	Epping Forest	55	59%	77%	2,369	↓ 54
230	Hertsmere	55	55%	86%	1,230	↓ 50
231	Dartmoor	55	44%	89%	609	↓ 41
232	Old Oak Park Royal	55	63%	92%	138	↓ 180
233	Manchester	55	47%	88%	3,654	↓ 68
234	Central Bedfordshire	55	25%	88%	2,554	↓ 45
235	Bromsgrove	55	51%	91%	856	↓ 119
236	Preston	55	65%	93%	905	↓ 66
237	Hart	55	43%	92%	1,814	↓ 73
238	West Suffolk	55	54%	95%	2,160	↓ 140
239	Selby	55	45%	83%	594	↑ 54
240	Hambleton	55	48%	92%	1,001	↓ 5
241	Ceredigion	55	51%	86%	840	↓ 130
242	West Berkshire	55	42%	90%	2,249	↓ 108
243	Carlisle	55	48%	95%	826	↓ 15
244	Pembroke Coast	55	54%	85%	587	↓ 195
245	Tamworth	55	53%	95%	229	↓ 34
246	Derby	55	59%	91%	1,343	↓ 73
247	Jersey	55	59%	94%	929	–
248	North East Derbyshire	55	42%	91%	894	↓ 28
249	Boston	55	50%	92%	583	↓ 167
250	Liverpool	55	44%	82%	3,208	↓ 81
251	Portsmouth	55	41%	86%	1,006	↓ 72
252	Harborough	55	49%	92%	1,550	↓ 128
253	Slough	55	56%	81%	1,131	↓ 73
254	Taunton Deane	55	48%	88%	755	↓ 99
255	Chesterfield	55	39%	92%	704	↓ 151
256	Wirral	55	31%	88%	1,347	↓ 33
257	Gedling	55	45%	94%	667	↓ 30
258	Lincolnshire County Council	55	56%	94%	83	–
259	Newport	55	41%	79%	1,025	↓ 103
260	Wigan	55	30%	84%	1,352	↓ 83
261	East Ayrshire	55	35%	95%	615	↓ 232
262	Brentwood	55	55%	89%	1,028	↓ 35
263	Glamorgan	55	40%	91%	1,171	↓ 225
264	St Albans	55	46%	88%	2,384	↓ 76
265	Cambridgeshire County Council	55	42%	100%	74	–
266	Scilly Isles	56	53%	94%	82	↓ 37
267	Bexley	56	58%	89%	2,074	↓ 80
268	Greenwich	56	54%	83%	2,298	↓ 129
269	Reigate	56	74%	91%	1,613	↓ 149
270	Bradford	56	72%	85%	2,928	↓ 144
271	Maidstone	56	70%	88%	2,096	–
272	Southend	56	52%	85%	1,205	↓ 44
273	Bromley	56	43%	80%	4,194	↓ 61
274	Luton	56	35%	81%	1,199	↓ 45
275	Tower Hamlets	56	65%	90%	1,283	↓ 145
276	Colchester	56	50%	87%	1,372	↓ 67
277	Welwyn Hatfield	56	48%	91%	1,854	↓ 35
278	South Derbyshire	56	38%	93%	1,195	↓ 48
279	Warrington	56	39%	86%	1,557	↓ 66
280	East Hertfordshire	56	38%	84%	1,580	↓ 49
281	Calderdale	56	30%	86%	1,285	↓ 49
282	Elmbridge	56	42%	82%	2,698	↓ 64
283	Warwick	56	45%	93%	1,186	↓ 30
284	York	56	42%	89%	2,362	↓ 93
285	Buckinghamshire	56	62%	86%	5,518	↓ 283
286	Lambeth	56	51%	83%	3,275	↓ 90
287	Maldon	56	24%	90%	929	↓ 39
288	Huntingdonshire	56	47%	90%	1,538	↓ 50
289	Horsham	56	44%	93%	2,513	↓ 40
290	Hillingdon	56	46%	88%	2,932	↓ 71
291	Bolton	56	48%	79%	1,678	↓ 138
292	Hartlepool	56	28%	95%	305	↓ 85
293	Copeland	56	58%	98%	368	↓ 134
294	Eastbourne	56	32%	90%	569	↓ 293
295	Exmoor	56	39%	96%	269	↓ 54
296	Rochdale	56	39%	91%	1,012	↓ 62
297	Rushcliffe	56	41%	90%	960	↓ 27
298	Cherwell	56	42%	93%	2,255	↓ 163
299	Wakefield	56	41%	90%	1,328	↑ 1
300	Hackney	56	43%	86%	2,529	↓ 47
301	South Kesteven	56	49%	93%	1,287	↓ 94
302	Woking	56	56%	88%	1,308	↓ 175
303	Reading	56	46%	88%	1,317	↓ 276
304	Brighton And Hove	56	38%	95%	1,910	↓ 50
305	Worthing	56	42%	92%	747	–
306	West Lancashire	56	47%	86%	913	↓ 160
307	Thanet	56	28%	94%	1,122	↓ 195
308	South Downs	56	42%	93%	3,165	↓ 250
309	Kirklees	56	43%	89%	3,079	↓ 263
310	East Lindsey	56	31%	94%	1,249	↓ 259
311	Hull	56	47%	92%	830	↓ 225
312	Mansfield	56	46%	94%	486	↓ 205
313	Blaby	56	42%	96%	730	↓ 177
314	South Staffordshire	56	40%	84%	1,142	↓ 70
315	Guildford	56	45%	88%	1,776	↓ 26
316	Winchester	56	44%	95%	1,740	↓ 173
317	Oldham	56	39%	94%	1,070	↓ 81
318	Merton	56	50%	92%	3,072	↓ 161
319	Wrexham	56	45%	93%	706	↓ 177
320	Mole Valley	56	30%	80%	1,673	↓ 68
321	Salford	56	33%	84%	1,502	↓ 71
322	Nuneaton	56	34%	95%	557	↓ 105
323	Scarborough	56	25%	87%	555	↑ 9
324	Snowdonia	56	42%	93%	299	↓ 26
325	Barnsley	56	34%	92%	882	↓ 62
326	North West Leicestershire	56	42%	94%	1,106	↓ 166
327	Tonbridge	56	35%	95%	1,736	↓ 80
328	Shetlands	57	42%	98%	383	↓ 179
329	Aberdeenshire	57	36%	96%	1,765	↓ 266
330	Angus	57	31%	96%	550	↓ 185
331	Rochford	57	34%	87%	565	↓ 150
332	Anglesey	57	29%	93%	748	↓ 138
333	Highland	57	29%	97%	2,565	↓ 213
334	Blaenau Gwent	58	25%	95%	290	↓ 190
335	Crawley	58	50%	90%	645	↓ 313
336	Birmingham	58	43%	84%	4,914	↓ 213
337	North Northamptonshire	58	33%	89%	1,850	↓ 153
338	South Lanarkshire	58	33%	94%	1,168	↓ 228
339	West Dunbartonshire	58	28%	97%	257	↓ 71
340	Broxbourne	58	31%	90%	802	↓ 105
341	Bcp	58	38%	87%	5,087	↓ 86
342	Midlothian	58	36%	93%	511	↓ 142
343	Norfolk County Council	59	47%	91%	59	–
344	Hinckley And Bosworth	60	37%	92%	800	↓ 149
345	East Dunbartonshire	60	20%	97%	562	↓ 83
346	Powys	61	39%	84%	1,272	↓ 215
347	East Staffordshire	62	31%	89%	1,123	↓ 132
348	Melton	62	41%	93%	636	↓ 304
349	Wyre	62	33%	87%	733	↓ 109
350	Bassetlaw	62	29%	81%	972	↓ 111
351	Rossendale	63	31%	90%	438	↓ 150
352	Walsall	64	42%	81%	1,143	↓ 205
353	Nottinghamshire County Council	65	35%	100%	45	–
354	Kensington And Chelsea	65	42%	95%	4,303	↓ 252
355	Mid East Antrim	65	35%	89%	676	↓ 295
356	Bracknell Forest	65	30%	92%	968	↓ 135
357	City Of London	66	37%	over 99%	1,169	–
358	Cheshire East	66	36%	89%	4,553	↓ 101
359	Gateshead	66	29%	91%	753	↓ 173
360	Ryedale	66	14%	94%	553	↓ 82
361	Stafford	67	24%	80%	657	↓ 23
362	Ards And North Down	68	34%	96%	810	↓ 23
363	West Northamptonshire	69	36%	92%	3,819	↓ 104
364	Staffordshire Moorlands	69	26%	77%	592	↓ 104
365	Antrim And Newtownabbey	69	30%	92%	757	↓ 34
366	Glasgow	69	15%	90%	2,174	↓ 163
367	Hammersmith And Fulham	70	14%	96%	1,733	↓ 116
368	Denbighshire	71	30%	91%	599	↓ 104
369	Havant	71	24%	94%	785	↓ 113
370	Bridgend	71	22%	90%	594	↓ 293
371	Orkney	71	18%	96%	313	↓ 110
372	Lancashire County Council	73	19%	100%	45	–
373	Causeway And Glens	73	32%	96%	825	↓ 31
374	Moray	73	28%	98%	573	↓ 40
375	Stoke On Trent	74	15%	84%	938	↓ 109
376	Rother	74	23%	86%	1,130	↓ 118
377	East Hampshire	77	26%	90%	1,289	↓ 131
378	Loch Lomond	78	24%	97%	257	↓ 43
379	Derry And Strabane	80	31%	95%	524	↓ 36
380	North Warwickshire	81	22%	97%	545	↓ 222
381	Energy Consents Unit	81	20%	100%	31	–
382	Ebbsfleet	82	32%	99%	146	↓ 115
383	Gwynedd	88	22%	88%	701	↓ 118
384	Armagh Banbridge Craigavon	89	15%	96%	905	↓ 43
385	Lisburn And Castlereagh	90	16%	99%	633	↓ 41
386	Mid Ulster	94	25%	97%	667	↓ 50
387	Oxfordshire County Council	107	23%	100%	65	–
388	Newry Mourne Down	132	12%	93%	798	↓ 43

Not published: 13 councils

These registers report decisions in a way our checks cannot reconcile, so a figure would mislead. Each is re-tested nightly and returns to the table when its data does.

Allerdale collapse: 2021, 2024 under 1% vs best year 7.0%
Belfast live-divergence: 2026 runs 2.4% vs archive 7.6%
Breckland collapse: 2017 under 1% vs best year 9.3%
Great Yarmouth live-divergence: 2026 runs 11.5% vs archive 0.8%
Harrow collapse: 2016-2017 under 1% vs best year 26.0%
Havering collapse: 8 of 9 years under 1% vs 8.4% in 2016; 2026 runs 21.8%
High Peak collapse: 2021-2024 under 1% vs best year 13.6%; 2026 runs 18.5%
Hyndburn collapse: 2016 under 1% vs best year 15.5%
Inverclyde live-divergence: 2026 runs 0.0% vs archive 5.3%
Leicester live-divergence: 2026 runs 98.4% vs archive 13.2% (live-side mapping fault)
Rhondda live-divergence: 2026 runs 2.3% vs archive 9.9%
Richmondshire live-divergence: 2026 runs 10.9% vs archive 3.6%
Western Isles collapse: 2018 under 1% vs best year 4.5%

Change is the movement in the speed ranking against the twelve months before; a dash means the council had too few decisions then to rank. Ranks are among published councils only: 25 timed decisions in the window for the all-applications table, 10 for a single kind, where a * marks a council under 25. See also planning appeals.

About these figures

How are decision times measured?

Days from the date the council validated the application to the date it decided it, for applications approved or refused in the window. That is the clock councils report against and the official statistics use. Each council’s page also shows the count from receipt, which is what the applicant actually waited. Withdrawn and undecided applications are not timed.

Why do these figures differ from the council’s own?

Councils count an agreed extension of time as decided on time; we treat the calendar as the calendar. Our figures are also live and rolling, where official statistics are quarterly and annual. So a council’s own within-eight-weeks figure will usually sit a little above ours.

What counts as approved?

Approval rate is approvals divided by approvals plus refusals. Withdrawals, and decisions whose outcome the register does not state, are counted in the totals but not in the rate.

Why is a council missing?

A council is published when it has at least 25 timed decisions in the window and its register’s decision data passes our consistency checks. Councils that fail are listed with the reason rather than shown with a number that would mislead.

How often is this updated?

Nightly, from the decisions we collect from every council register we monitor. The window is the twelve months to the last complete month.