How long planning decisions take in Tewkesbury

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 64 days, Tewkesbury has moved down 16 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. Other 17 decided 27 days
2. Amendments 57 decided 28 days
3. Trees 113 decided 38 days
4. Prior approval 14 decided 50 days
5. Lawful development 94 decided 68 days
6. Outline 32 decided 68 days
7. Heritage and listed buildings 69 decided 70 days
8. Advertising 20 decided 72 days
9. Conditions 184 decided 72 days
10. Full applications 562 decided 78 days

How these types compare nationally

Tewkesbury issued 1,168 decisions in the year to September 2026. Of the clear-cut outcomes, 87% were approvals: 810 granted against 117 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.