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UK planning applications by council

As of November 2026, PlanIndex indexes 2,124,876 planning applications from 373 UK local planning authorities, including 436,132 decided in the trailing 12 months. Coverage grows as more councils are ingested.

1,876,350

England 308 of 308 councils covered

134,556

Scotland 32 of 32 councils covered

91,322

Wales 22 of 22 councils covered

22,648

Northern Ireland 11 of 11 councils covered

Every local planning authority

Councils without a figure are not yet ingested; their hubs show where to find applications in the meantime.

England

East Midlands

36 councils · 144,849 applications

East of England

46 councils · 253,647 applications · median decision 63 days

Babergh 8,194
Basildon 5,180
Bedford 2,037
Braintree 20
Breckland 1,033
Brentwood 5,383
Broadland 11,315
Broxbourne 1,898
Cambridge 5,180
Castle Point 2,029
Central Bedfordshire 6,391
Chelmsford 12,670
Colchester 3,254
Dacorum 4,767
East Cambridgeshire 1,576
East Hertfordshire 8,359
East Suffolk 6,134
Epping Forest 5,786
Fenland 1,410
Great Yarmouth 5,090
Harlow 2,137
Hertsmere 4,390
Huntingdonshire 7,913
Ipswich 4,124
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 6,245
Luton 2,686
Maldon 5,253
Mid Suffolk 8,009
North Hertfordshire 4,985
North Norfolk 7,836
Norwich 3,979
Peterborough 16,057
Rochford 9,200
South Cambridgeshire 8,030
South Norfolk 13,467
Southend-on-Sea 3,474
St Albans 4,691
Stevenage 1,562
Tendring 5,481
The Broads Authority 1,297
Three Rivers 9,887
Thurrock 2,865
Uttlesford 6,550
Watford 6,746
Welwyn Hatfield 4,144
West Suffolk 4,933

London

34 councils · 368,595 applications

Barking and Dagenham 2,938
Barnet 7,037
Bexley 6,802
Brent 12,752
Bromley 8,890
Camden 82,584
City of London 5,271
Croydon 5,665
Ealing 7,816
Enfield 7,384
Greenwich 10,166
Hackney 2,377
Hammersmith and Fulham 12,319
Haringey 7,526
Harrow 9,480
Havering 12,174
Hillingdon 7,965
Hounslow 7,665
Islington 11,418
Kensington and Chelsea 7,097
Kingston upon Thames 11,266
Lambeth 8,985
Lewisham 17,680
Merton 2,259
Newham 6,606
Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation 10,394
Redbridge 7,606
Richmond upon Thames 18,356
Southwark 11,851
Sutton 5,816
Tower Hamlets 2,904
Waltham Forest 2,575
Wandsworth 9,803
Westminster 17,168

North East

13 councils · 40,562 applications

North West

36 councils · 179,048 applications

Blackburn with Darwen 2,165
Blackpool 940
Bolton 3,903
Burnley 9,438
Bury 3,233
Cheshire East 151
Cheshire West and Chester 17,656
Chorley 2,434
Cumberland 10,489
Fylde 1,954
Halton 1,000
Hyndburn 656
Knowsley 6,641
Lake District National Park 4,927
Lancaster 3,971
Liverpool 475
Manchester 30,487
Oldham 5,214
Pendle 4,038
Preston 994
Ribble Valley 2,801
Rochdale 9,450
Rossendale 1,231
Salford 5,939
Sefton 1,854
South Ribble 1,581
St. Helens 5,886
Stockport 5,625
Tameside 2,292
Trafford 5,507
Warrington 2,417
West Lancashire 2,256
Westmorland and Furness 2,768
Wigan 2,966
Wirral 14,239
Wyre 1,470

South East

67 councils · 396,329 applications · median decision 56 days

Adur 9,895
Arun 3,782
Ashford 5,425
Basingstoke and Deane 4,631
Bracknell Forest 13,024
Brighton and Hove 2,778
Buckinghamshire 10,046
Canterbury 5,246
Cherwell 5,188
Chichester 2,152
Crawley 1,704
Dartford 2,630
Dover 3,571
East Hampshire 1,345
Eastbourne 2,208
Eastleigh 3,199
Ebbsfleet Development Corporation 2,873
Elmbridge 21,828
Epsom and Ewell 3,099
Fareham 3,285
Folkestone and Hythe 3,364
Gosport 915
Gravesham 3,506
Guildford 6,208
Hart 8,326
Hastings 1,479
Havant 4,327
Horsham 4,679
Isle of Wight 3,804
Lewes 1,959
Maidstone 1,515
Medway 4,625
Mid Sussex 4,752
Milton Keynes 6,804
Mole Valley 7,133
New Forest 2,461
New Forest National Park 3,785
Oxford 9,381
Portsmouth 832
Reading 3,692
Reigate and Banstead 11,364
Rother 1,287
Runnymede 3,976
Rushmoor 2,324
Sevenoaks 6,782
Slough 4,243
South Downs National Park 4,049
South Oxfordshire 28,558
Southampton 7,761
Spelthorne 2,540
Surrey Heath 3,221
Swale 1,338
Tandridge 6,571
Test Valley 4,411
Thanet 2,777
Tonbridge and Malling 10,040
Tunbridge Wells 3,973
Vale of White Horse 20,245
Waverley 9,141
Wealden 11,500
West Berkshire 4,748
West Oxfordshire 8,752
Winchester 8,384
Windsor and Maidenhead 17,487
Woking 2,518
Wokingham 13,910
Worthing 2,973

South West

29 councils · 190,260 applications

Bath and North East Somerset 9,262
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 5,931
Bristol, City of 5,281
Cheltenham 8,302
Cornwall 19,959
Cotswold 13,668
Dartmoor National Park 912
Dorset 10,774
East Devon 3,266
Exeter 4,678
Exmoor National Park 22,578
Forest of Dean 2,592
Gloucester 3,507
Isles of Scilly 214
Mid Devon 2,772
North Devon 2,913
North Somerset 6,180
Plymouth 7,417
Somerset 6
South Gloucestershire 7,734
South Hams 7,422
Stroud 4,599
Swindon 7,057
Teignbridge 2,275
Tewkesbury 2,723
Torbay 2,580
Torridge 4,771
West Devon 5,445
Wiltshire 15,442

West Midlands

30 councils · 145,911 applications

Yorkshire and The Humber

17 councils · 157,229 applications

Scotland

32 councils · 134,556 applications · median decision 66 days · Scotland hub

Wales

22 councils · 91,322 applications · median decision 56 days · Wales hub

Blaenau Gwent 425
Bridgend 1,595
Caerphilly 1,651
Cardiff 7,206
Carmarthenshire 15,667
Ceredigion 865
Conwy 3,323
Denbighshire 507
Flintshire 2,261
Gwynedd 663
Isle of Anglesey 6,245
Merthyr Tydfil 707
Monmouthshire 2,888
Neath Port Talbot 1,590
Newport 2,383
Pembrokeshire 2,085
Powys 17,671
Rhondda Cynon Taf 7,358
Swansea 10,323
Torfaen 1,745
Vale of Glamorgan 2,151
Wrexham 2,013

Northern Ireland

11 councils · 22,648 applications · Northern Ireland hub

Antrim and Newtownabbey 1,269
Ards and North Down 1,755
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon 2,209
Belfast 2,970
Causeway Coast and Glens 2,220
Derry City and Strabane 1,666
Fermanagh and Omagh 1,900
Lisburn and Castlereagh 1,556
Mid and East Antrim 1,847
Mid Ulster 3,108
Newry, Mourne and Down 2,148