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Every planning authority in the United Kingdom, free.

How often each one grants permission, how often it decides on time, and the policies it will judge your application against. No account, no card, no trial.

378 authorities

				Local plan
FarehamSouth East	97.6%	98.8%	579	Adopted
City of LondonLondon	97%	95.9%	525	Adopted
North KestevenEast Midlands	97%	97.9%	656	Adopted
CheltenhamSouth West	96.8%	94.3%	993
North TynesideNorth East	96.8%	99.2%	624	Adopted
Ebbsfleet Development CorporationSouth East	96.7%	Not reported	30
The Broads AuthorityEast of England	96.5%	Not reported	135	Adopted
BolsoverEast Midlands	96.2%	99.7%	259	Adopted
FyldeNorth West	96.2%	97.4%	442	Adopted
Redcar and ClevelandNorth East	96.2%	85.2%	426	Adopted
Amber ValleyEast Midlands	96%	98.9%	706
Exmoor National ParkSouth West	96%	Not reported	187
CumberlandNorth West	95.8%	66%	1,211
NorwichEast of England	95.7%	86.4%	574	Adopted
StevenageEast of England	95.7%	91.3%	269	Adopted
Blackburn with DarwenNorth West	95.6%	100%	622	Adopted
North York Moors National ParkYorkshire and The Humber	95.5%	Not reported	443
Hammersmith & FulhamLondon	95.5%	90%	1,426	Adopted
MansfieldEast Midlands	95.5%	94.5%	326	Adopted
North West LeicestershireEast Midlands	95.5%	86%	594	Adopted
HaltonNorth West	95.4%	97.9%	261	Adopted
South RibbleNorth West	95.4%	95.6%	410	Adopted
RushmoorSouth East	95.3%	95%	311	Adopted
CanterburySouth East	95.1%	77.8%	1,013	Adopted
StockportNorth West	95.1%	98.4%	1,379	Adopted
RedditchWest Midlands	95%	87.5%	258	Adopted
Vale of White HorseSouth East	95%	95.4%	1,062	Adopted
North East LincolnshireYorkshire and The Humber	94.9%	98.7%	504	Adopted
Nuneaton and BedworthWest Midlands	94.8%	97.1%	340	Adopted
St. HelensNorth West	94.8%	99.6%	475	Adopted
West OxfordshireSouth East	94.8%	96.8%	1,105
Bath & NE SomersetSouth West	94.7%	79%	1,883	Adopted
Mid DevonSouth West	94.7%	94.2%	726
TamworthWest Midlands	94.7%	99.3%	263	Adopted
Tonbridge and MallingSouth East	94.7%	89%	911	Adopted
South DerbyshireEast Midlands	94.4%	90.9%	731	Adopted
WokinghamSouth East	94.4%	98.9%	1,201	Adopted
BromsgroveWest Midlands	94.3%	88.9%	447	Adopted
GosportSouth East	94.2%	91.6%	232	Adopted
BroxtoweEast Midlands	93.9%	98.3%	503	Adopted

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The spread

Councils are not interchangeable.

The gap between the hardest authority on record and the most permissive is 33.5%. Two identical schemes, two sides of a boundary, two different answers.

Authorities: 378
Median approved: 88.6%
Applications a year: 318,255
Rates on record: 308

How our own rate compares

60–70%2
70–80%33
80–85%54
85–90%98
90–95%94
95–100%27

Authorities by share of applications approved, 308 on record. Source: each authority's own published decisions.

Three of them

The shape of an authority is half the answer.

A dense inner-London borough and a rural district the size of a county are both called a planning authority. What they will accept, and how long they take, are not the same question.

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We hold an approval rate for 308 of 378 authorities and an on-time rate for 294. Where a figure is not on record the profile says so. It never reads as zero and it never quietly borrows a national average.

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