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UK planning applications by council

As of September 2026, PlanIndex indexes 1,866,883 planning applications from 373 UK local planning authorities, including 427,888 decided in the trailing 12 months. Coverage grows as more councils are ingested.

1,645,019

England 308 of 308 councils covered

119,205

Scotland 32 of 32 councils covered

81,722

Wales 22 of 22 councils covered

20,937

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 · 123,399 applications · median decision 68 days

East of England

46 councils · 219,274 applications · median decision 55 days

Babergh 7,343
Basildon 4,646
Bedford 1,637
Braintree 20
Breckland 1,033
Brentwood 3,576
Broadland 10,900
Broxbourne 1,752
Cambridge 4,528
Castle Point 1,626
Central Bedfordshire 5,705
Chelmsford 11,274
Colchester 2,987
Dacorum 4,384
East Cambridgeshire 1,446
East Hertfordshire 7,139
East Suffolk 5,680
Epping Forest 5,433
Fenland 1,231
Great Yarmouth 4,335
Harlow 1,785
Hertsmere 3,826
Huntingdonshire 7,165
Ipswich 3,702
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 5,454
Luton 2,396
Maldon 3,563
Mid Suffolk 7,704
North Hertfordshire 4,382
North Norfolk 4,802
Norwich 3,529
Peterborough 14,519
Rochford 8,972
South Cambridgeshire 4,755
South Norfolk 11,742
Southend-on-Sea 2,954
St Albans 3,849
Stevenage 1,358
Tendring 4,412
The Broads Authority 1,260
Three Rivers 8,735
Thurrock 2,438
Uttlesford 5,801
Watford 5,451
Welwyn Hatfield 3,821
West Suffolk 4,224

London

34 councils · 334,414 applications · median decision 56 days

Barking and Dagenham 2,938
Barnet 6,136
Bexley 6,028
Brent 11,902
Bromley 8,059
Camden 82,356
City of London 3,954
Croydon 4,715
Ealing 7,688
Enfield 5,733
Greenwich 9,250
Hackney 2,377
Hammersmith and Fulham 9,634
Haringey 6,424
Harrow 9,480
Havering 10,062
Hillingdon 7,233
Hounslow 6,638
Islington 10,867
Kensington and Chelsea 7,097
Kingston upon Thames 8,885
Lambeth 7,882
Lewisham 13,661
Merton 2,259
Newham 5,837
Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation 9,475
Redbridge 6,716
Richmond upon Thames 15,257
Southwark 10,427
Sutton 5,139
Tower Hamlets 2,631
Waltham Forest 2,546
Wandsworth 9,286
Westminster 15,842

North East

13 councils · 33,044 applications

North West

36 councils · 155,111 applications · median decision 56 days

Blackburn with Darwen 2,165
Blackpool 866
Bolton 3,252
Burnley 7,698
Bury 2,910
Cheshire East 151
Cheshire West and Chester 14,280
Chorley 2,059
Cumberland 9,032
Fylde 1,895
Halton 882
Hyndburn 606
Knowsley 6,388
Lake District National Park 4,507
Lancaster 3,452
Liverpool 475
Manchester 23,215
Oldham 4,970
Pendle 3,222
Preston 994
Ribble Valley 2,515
Rochdale 7,904
Rossendale 1,117
Salford 5,516
Sefton 1,595
South Ribble 1,445
St. Helens 5,362
Stockport 4,266
Tameside 2,000
Trafford 4,903
Warrington 2,417
West Lancashire 2,208
Westmorland and Furness 2,854
Wigan 2,571
Wirral 14,180
Wyre 1,239

South East

67 councils · 343,876 applications · median decision 56 days

Adur 9,797
Arun 3,276
Ashford 4,729
Basingstoke and Deane 4,381
Bracknell Forest 11,369
Brighton and Hove 2,778
Buckinghamshire 8,043
Canterbury 4,649
Cherwell 4,214
Chichester 2,064
Crawley 1,583
Dartford 2,545
Dover 3,306
East Hampshire 1,281
Eastbourne 2,136
Eastleigh 2,988
Ebbsfleet Development Corporation 2,681
Elmbridge 17,877
Epsom and Ewell 2,460
Fareham 3,062
Folkestone and Hythe 3,175
Gosport 771
Gravesham 2,395
Guildford 5,262
Hart 6,749
Hastings 1,258
Havant 4,170
Horsham 4,268
Isle of Wight 3,277
Lewes 1,826
Maidstone 1,201
Medway 3,922
Mid Sussex 4,162
Milton Keynes 6,456
Mole Valley 6,529
New Forest 2,461
New Forest National Park 3,528
Oxford 7,330
Portsmouth 832
Reading 3,367
Reigate and Banstead 9,329
Rother 1,287
Runnymede 3,153
Rushmoor 2,232
Sevenoaks 6,291
Slough 3,364
South Downs National Park 3,283
South Oxfordshire 22,456
Southampton 6,028
Spelthorne 2,067
Surrey Heath 2,627
Swale 1,160
Tandridge 6,158
Test Valley 4,067
Thanet 2,777
Tonbridge and Malling 8,748
Tunbridge Wells 3,497
Vale of White Horse 19,428
Waverley 7,011
Wealden 10,841
West Berkshire 3,890
West Oxfordshire 7,208
Winchester 7,328
Windsor and Maidenhead 14,627
Woking 2,125
Wokingham 12,059
Worthing 2,677

South West

29 councils · 170,227 applications · median decision 55 days

Bath and North East Somerset 8,346
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 5,665
Bristol, City of 5,356
Cheltenham 7,935
Cornwall 17,510
Cotswold 12,467
Dartmoor National Park 912
Dorset 9,449
East Devon 3,131
Exeter 3,707
Exmoor National Park 19,150
Forest of Dean 2,341
Gloucester 3,096
Isles of Scilly 207
Mid Devon 2,567
North Devon 2,638
North Somerset 5,335
Plymouth 6,840
Somerset 5
South Gloucestershire 7,177
South Hams 5,945
Stroud 3,989
Swindon 5,467
Teignbridge 2,064
Tewkesbury 2,607
Torbay 2,423
Torridge 4,771
West Devon 5,331
Wiltshire 13,796

West Midlands

30 councils · 123,126 applications · median decision 57 days

Yorkshire and The Humber

17 councils · 145,133 applications · median decision 56 days

Scotland

32 councils · 119,473 applications · median decision 58 days · Scotland hub

Wales

22 councils · 81,796 applications · median decision 56 days · Wales hub

Blaenau Gwent 258
Bridgend 1,341
Caerphilly 1,481
Cardiff 6,352
Carmarthenshire 12,991
Ceredigion 865
Conwy 3,023
Denbighshire 505
Flintshire 2,081
Gwynedd 663
Isle of Anglesey 5,339
Merthyr Tydfil 659
Monmouthshire 2,086
Neath Port Talbot 1,419
Newport 2,140
Pembrokeshire 1,794
Powys 16,581
Rhondda Cynon Taf 6,986
Swansea 9,942
Torfaen 1,378
Vale of Glamorgan 2,107
Wrexham 1,805

Northern Ireland

11 councils · 21,007 applications · Northern Ireland hub

Antrim and Newtownabbey 1,135
Ards and North Down 1,649
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon 1,990
Belfast 2,745
Causeway Coast and Glens 2,067
Derry City and Strabane 1,522
Fermanagh and Omagh 1,728
Lisburn and Castlereagh 1,468
Mid and East Antrim 1,763
Mid Ulster 2,958
Newry, Mourne and Down 1,982