Planning decisions in Isle Of Wight

How long Isle Of Wight takes to decide a planning application and how many it approves, from the 1,614 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.

55 daysmedian from validation to decision (UK 54); 57 from receipt
78%decided within eight weeks (UK 66%), 94% within thirteen
93%approved (UK 90%): 1,412 approved, 105 refused, 65 withdrawn
216 of 388UK rank for speed, up 17 places on last year; 144 of 388 for approvals
056 October 2025: 59 days, 145 decisionsOctNovember 2025: 62 days, 136 decisionsNovDecember 2025: 57 days, 154 decisionsDecJanuary 2026: 56 days, 123 decisionsJanFebruary 2026: 56 days, 107 decisionsFebMarch 2026: 58 days, 138 decisionsMarApril 2026: 58 days, 134 decisionsAprMay 2026: 56 days, 122 decisionsMayJune 2026: 56 days, 141 decisionsJunJuly 2026: 56 days, 154 decisionsJulAugust 2026: 59 days, 131 decisionsAugSeptember 2026: 55 days, 129 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
Tree works5164%94%523270 of 324
Householder applications5595%96%33174 of 200
Full applications5674%88%23990 of 359
Discharge of conditions5379%99%191153 of 310
Amendments5576%87%115269 of 356
Lawful development certificates5597%86%68227 of 348
Listed building consent5686%96%6177 of 307
Prior approvals4498%89%51298 of 340
Advertisement consent *5395%84%23101 of 320

Delegated or committee

RouteShareMedian daysApprovedDecisions
Delegated to officers99%5593%1,541
Planning committee1%10188%8

Where the register states how the decision was made. 65 decisions did not say.

Appeals

48 appeals against Isle Of Wight decisions were decided by the Planning Inspectorate in the window, 46 for every 100 refusals; 42% were allowed. Every appeal in Isle Of Wight.

By year

Year decidedMedian daysWithin 8 weeksApprovedDecisions
2016 *5652%88%26
2017 *5265%92%72
2018 *5571%94%31
2019 *5275%99%109
2020 *5664%66%117
2021 *5664%92%26
2022 *2885%63%76
2023 *5571%94%33
2024 *5944%85%27
2025 *6232%95%65
2026 so far5651%93%1,179

* 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

Built nightly from Isle Of Wight's planning register. Ranks are among the 388 published councils. See planning applications in Isle Of Wight, appeals, or get alerts for Isle Of Wight.

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.