Planning decisions in North Yorkshire

How long North Yorkshire takes to decide a planning application and how many it approves, from the 44 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.

45 daysmedian from validation to decision (UK 54); 54 from receipt

73%decided within eight weeks (UK 66%), 85% within thirteen

100%approved (UK 90%): 40 approved, 0 refused

30 of 388UK rank for speed, up 153 places on last year; 6 of 388 for approvals

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

Kind	Median days	Within 8 weeks	Approved	Decisions	UK rank
Discharge of conditions *	40	89%	100%	18	34 of 310

Appeals

256 appeals against North Yorkshire decisions were decided by the Planning Inspectorate in the window; 24% were allowed. Every appeal in North Yorkshire.

By year

Year decided	Median days	Within 8 weeks	Approved	Decisions
2016 *	55	77%	96%	28
2017 *	55	85%	88%	43
2018 *	55	78%	85%	27
2019 *	56	52%	86%	73
2020 *	45	61%	88%	74
2021 *	31	72%	86%	36
2022 *	57	49%	77%	95
2023 *	47	67%	80%	85
2024 *	28	94%	94%	35
2025 *	27	92%	88%	26
2026 so far	55	56%	100%	38

* 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

Escrick Quarry, Riccall Road, Escrick, York, North Yorkshire, YO19 6ED
Application for the approval of details reserved by condition no. 38iv (part discharge) of Planning Permission Ref. C8/2019/0917/CPO which r
Approved12 Oct 2026

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

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 Withdrawn and undecided applications are not timed.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.