Planning decisions in Ealing

How long Ealing takes to decide a planning application and how many it approves, from the 2,303 decisions it made in the twelve months to August 2026. Days run from validation to decision, the clock the council reports against; the wait from receipt is shown beside it. How the figures are made.

53 daysmedian from validation to decision (UK 52); 54 from receipt
72%decided within eight weeks (UK 73%), 92% within thirteen
86%approved (UK 89%): 1,785 approved, 302 refused, 53 withdrawn
182 of 321UK rank for speed, down 74 places on last year; 252 of 321 for approvals
056 September 2025: 56 days, 363 decisionsSeptOctober 2025: 61 days, 365 decisionsOctNovember 2025: 56 days, 373 decisionsNovDecember 2025: 56 days, 395 decisionsDecJanuary 2026: 13 days, 28 decisionsJanFebruary 2026: 32 days, 145 decisionsFebMarch 2026: 41 days, 355 decisionsMarApril 2026: 51 days, 414 decisionsAprMay 2026: 56 days, 343 decisionsMayJune 2026: 55 days, 366 decisionsJunJuly 2026: 57 days, 335 decisionsJulAugust 2026: 56 days, 317 decisionsAug
Median days from validation to decision, by month of decision. Dashed line: UK median (52 days). Grid at 56 and 91 days, the eight and thirteen week targets.

By kind of application

KindMedian daysWithin 8 weeksApprovedDecisionsUK rank
Full applications (including householder)5652%79%725234 of 302
Lawful development certificates5086%89%516112 of 253
Discharge of conditions5267%95%393111 of 175
Tree works2399%98%25427 of 259
Prior approvals4189%33%20692 of 168
Amendments2879%81%9796 of 263
Other1893%95%5715 of 41
Advertisement consent5464%86%3696 of 190
Listed building consent *6038%85%16149 of 200

Delegated or committee

RouteShareMedian daysApprovedDecisions
Delegated to officersover 99%5484%2,012
Planning committeeunder 1%6100%4

Where the register states how the decision was made. 287 decisions did not say.

Appeals

115 appeals against Ealing decisions were decided by the Planning Inspectorate in the window, 38 for every 100 refusals; 21% were allowed. Every appeal in Ealing.

By year

Year decidedMedian daysWithin 8 weeksApprovedDecisions
2016 *5684%97%58
2017 *5597%31%41
2018 *9127%94%54
2019 *6932%94%52
2020 *5479%52%30
2021 *7331%94%69
2022 *5589%32%28
2023 *9625%93%33
2024 *9622%86%44
2025 *6429%96%51
2026 so far5467%86%2,303

* Years from our archive, which carries no validation date: timed from receipt, so a few days longer than the live years above them.

Past their target date now

Decided in the last three weeks

Built nightly from Ealing's planning register. Ranks are among the 321 published councils. See planning applications in Ealing, appeals, or get alerts for Ealing.

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.