Planning decisions in East Riding

How long East Riding takes to decide a planning application and how many it approves, from the 3,720 decisions it made in the twelve months to September 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.

51 daysmedian from validation to decision (UK 54); 57 from receipt
89%decided within eight weeks (UK 66%), 97% within thirteen
91%approved (UK 90%): 3,127 approved, 305 refused, 210 withdrawn
120 of 388UK rank for speed, down 7 places on last year; 203 of 388 for approvals
056 October 2025: 57 days, 304 decisionsOctNovember 2025: 59 days, 304 decisionsNovDecember 2025: 57 days, 316 decisionsDecJanuary 2026: 60 days, 308 decisionsJanFebruary 2026: 56 days, 239 decisionsFebMarch 2026: 55 days, 324 decisionsMarApril 2026: 56 days, 288 decisionsAprMay 2026: 58 days, 289 decisionsMayJune 2026: 63 days, 315 decisionsJunJuly 2026: 58 days, 375 decisionsJulAugust 2026: 56 days, 318 decisionsAugSeptember 2026: 56 days, 340 decisionsSept
Median days from validation to decision, by month of decision. Dashed line: UK median (54 days). Grid at 56 and 91 days, the eight and thirteen week targets.

By kind of application

KindMedian daysWithin 8 weeksApprovedDecisionsUK rank
Full applications5489%90%1,51040 of 359
Tree works3794%97%740139 of 324
Discharge of conditions4783%96%50375 of 310
Amendments4783%93%268176 of 356
Prior approvals2897%77%20883 of 340
Listed building consent5595%93%16752 of 307
Lawful development certificates5488%77%121208 of 348
Other5078%95%8119 of 35
Advertisement consent5296%87%7083 of 320
Outline applications *5688%31%2132 of 110

Delegated or committee

RouteShareMedian daysApprovedDecisions
Delegated to officers99%5091%3,613
Planning committee1%9378%50

Where the register states how the decision was made. 57 decisions did not say.

By year

Year decidedMedian daysWithin 8 weeksApprovedDecisions
2016 *8414%100%45
2017 *8914%95%59
2018 *2977%84%255
2019 *9111%84%45
2020 *908%100%53
2021 *1110%100%35
2022 *1023%97%33
2023 *1490%100%52
2024 *6433%84%55
2025 *1109%100%36
2026 so far5650%91%2,796

* 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 East Riding's planning register. Ranks are among the 388 published councils. See planning applications in East Riding, appeals, or get alerts for East Riding.

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.