How long planning decisions take in Tandridge

Rolling twelve month windows overlap by nine months, so this reads as a trend rather than as four separate quarters. Only windows our records reach far enough back to measure in full are listed.

Against the same twelve months a year earlier, when the median was 53 days, Tandridge has moved down 28 places in the table.

The headline median mixes every kind of application together. A householder extension and an outline application for a housing site are not the same job, and the difference between them is usually larger than the difference between two councils.

1. Prior approval 47 decided 37 days
2. Trees 194 decided 49 days
3. Lawful development 157 decided 55 days
4. Amendments 82 decided 56 days
5. Householder 369 decided 56 days
6. Conditions 125 decided 62 days
7. Outline 28 decided 80 days
8. Heritage and listed buildings 20 decided 82 days
9. Full applications 160 decided 100 days

How these types compare nationally

Tandridge issued 1,237 decisions in the year to September 2026. Of the clear-cut outcomes, 85% were approvals: 879 granted against 154 refused. Split decisions, withdrawals and other outcomes sit outside that percentage rather than being counted as either.

Speed and approval rate are separate things. A council that refuses quickly is not doing the same job as one that negotiates an approval slowly, and neither figure alone says which served the applicant better.