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Every planning authority, on the record.
The performance of your local planning authority is public information that almost nobody can find. It is scattered across quarterly statistics tables, plan documents and PDFs. We put it in one page per council and gave it away.
Coverage
What we hold
- Live authorities with a profile
- 378Plus 29 abolished districts kept for their history. Those rows never appear in the directory and redirect to their successor.
- With an adopted plan on file
- 67The plan name and its adoption year, so you can see at a glance whether the policies deciding your application are current or a decade old.
- Charging the levy
- 115With the schedule linked, and the residential rate indexed to the current year rather than quoted at the rate it was adopted at.
- Ingested policy text
- SearchableAdopted local plan policies as text you can search and quote, not as a link to a 400-page PDF. The London Plan sits underneath all 33 boroughs, because it is part of their statutory development plan.
Per council
What is on a council page
Approval rate
How often this authority grants permission, from the government's own quarterly statistics.
Decision times
Average weeks to a decision, and the share decided inside the statutory period.
Housing Delivery Test
The result, and the consequence it carries.
Five-year housing land supply
Whether it can demonstrate one, and whether the tilted balance is engaged as a result.
The adopted plan
Its name, its year, its status, and a link to it.
The levy
Whether it charges, the residential rate, the schedule, and the adoption date the indexation runs from.
Policies
The adopted policy text, searchable.
An assistant
Scoped to that authority alone, answering over everything above.
Neighbours
The adjoining authorities, because a site near a boundary is a question about two councils.
Gaps
Where a page says we do not hold this.
It says it because it is true, and because the alternative is what the rest of this market does.
Validation checklists are the clearest example. Around seven English councils in ten publish theirs in a form we can read and ingest. Where we have one, the submission checklist is built from that authority’s own list. Where we do not, the page says so and links to where the council publishes it, rather than showing you a national template dressed up as your council’s requirements.
Some of what we did ingest came from consultation drafts rather than adopted lists, so each requirement carries the quality of its own source and that is visible rather than averaged away. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are only partly covered. Some councils block our reader outright.
A quarterly statistics overlay is specified and is not yet populated, so the figures come from the master record rather than from the freshest quarter. We would rather write that down than have you discover it.
The reason for all of this is one competitor page we read while building this site. It publishes a fee table for 300 councils, presented as current. The figures are the December 2023 schedule. A householder application in England has cost £548 since 1 April 2026, and that page still says £258. Nobody reading it would know.
Why free
Why this is not the product
Because it should never have been a product. Every figure on a council page is public information, published by government, and paid for already. Four companies in this market charge between £150 and £700 a month for access to it.
Wren makes money when an application is delivered, so there is no reason to meter the thing that helps you decide whether you need one. If you read every council page and conclude you do not need us, the page did its job.
Start here
Look up your own council.
378 authorities, every one of them with a page, all of it free and none of it behind an account.