Planning decisions in Fylde

How long Fylde takes to decide a planning application and how many it approves, from the 184 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.

56 daysmedian from validation to decision (UK 52); 57 from receipt

54%decided within eight weeks (UK 73%), 80% within thirteen

94%approved (UK 89%): 132 approved, 9 refused, 8 withdrawn

290 of 321UK rank for speed, down 53 places on last year; 110 of 321 for approvals

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

Kind	Median days	Within 8 weeks	Approved	Decisions	UK rank
Full applications (including householder)	58	48%	96%	94	254 of 302
Tree works *	21	100%	100%	24	20 of 259
Amendments *	56	69%	100%	14	244 of 263
Lawful development certificates *	66	50%	100%	14	250 of 253

Delegated or committee

Route	Share	Median days	Approved	Decisions
Delegated to officers	97%	55	93%	178
Planning committee	3%	73	100%	6

Where the register states how the decision was made.

Appeals

9 appeals against Fylde decisions were decided by the Planning Inspectorate in the window, 100 for every 100 refusals; 56% were allowed. Every appeal in Fylde.

By year

Year decided	Median days	Within 8 weeks	Approved	Decisions
2016 *	57	48%	91%	453
2017 *	66	38%	96%	120
2018 *	56	59%	81%	28
2019 *	9	90%	92%	59
2020 *	6	96%	91%	90
2021 *	56	52%	95%	75
2022 *	51	58%	98%	49
2023 *	76	36%	97%	70
2024 *	69	36%	94%	325
2025 *	63	44%	100%	69
2026 so far	57	49%	94%	184

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

Decided in the last three weeks

OLD FIRE STATION 50 STATION ROAD MEDLAR WITH WESHAM
CHANGE OF USE OF FORMER FIRE STATION TO MOT TESTING STATION (USE CLASS E(G)(III)) INCLUDING ALTERATION TO COURTYARD (SOUTH FACING) ELEVATION
Approved2 Sept 2026
REAM HILLS, REAM HILLS HOLIDAY PARK MYTHOP ROAD WEETON WITH PREESE LANCASHIRE PR4 3NJ
CHANGE OF USE OF LAND FOR THE SITING OF 27 STATIC HOLIDAY LODGES WITH RAISED EXTERNAL DECKING, INCLUDING 1) CONSTRUCTION OF 27 CONCRETE BASE
Refused28 Aug 2026

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

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.