Planning decisions in Reigate

How long Reigate takes to decide a planning application and how many it approves, from the 1,613 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.

56 daysmedian from validation to decision (UK 54); 56 from receipt
74%decided within eight weeks (UK 66%), 91% within thirteen
91%approved (UK 90%): 1,388 approved, 145 refused, 60 withdrawn
269 of 388UK rank for speed, down 149 places on last year; 215 of 388 for approvals
056 October 2025: 56 days, 228 decisionsOctNovember 2025: 56 days, 210 decisionsNovDecember 2025: 55 days, 213 decisionsDecJanuary 2026: 15 days, 156 decisionsJanFebruary 2026: 36 days, 116 decisionsFebMarch 2026: 53 days, 178 decisionsMarApril 2026: 56 days, 165 decisionsAprMay 2026: 56 days, 183 decisionsMayJune 2026: 56 days, 184 decisionsJunJuly 2026: 56 days, 197 decisionsJulAugust 2026: 56 days, 153 decisionsAugSeptember 2026: 56 days, 183 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
Discharge of conditions4770%98%40581 of 310
Householder applications5670%95%392115 of 200
Tree works5675%93%315294 of 324
Full applications5656%79%141134 of 359
Lawful development certificates5695%83%140266 of 348
Amendments5379%91%86246 of 356
Prior approvals3598%68%75151 of 340
Advertisement consent *5677%72%28195 of 320

Delegated or committee

RouteShareMedian daysApprovedDecisions
Delegated to officers99%5690%970
Planning committee1%9992%13

Where the register states how the decision was made. 630 decisions did not say.

By year

Year decidedMedian daysWithin 8 weeksApprovedDecisions
2016 *5684%85%64
2017 *3594%99%179
2018 *4773%98%518
2019 *3592%97%186
2020 *5668%92%183
2021 *5684%92%39
2022 *5676%90%30
2023 *5567%83%30
2024 *5671%86%28
2025 *5681%59%37
2026 so far5674%91%1,515

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

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.