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Boroughs
1,626,976
Application records
10,156
Appeal decisions
80%
London avg approval
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Scheme of Delegation · draft · 10 Aug 2026
Lewisham's planning committee is about to lose 83% of its caseload. Here's who decides your scheme instead.
Scheme of Delegation · draft · 10 Aug 2026
Greenwich's planning committee is about to lose 82% of its caseload. Here's who decides your scheme instead.
Scheme of Delegation · draft · 10 Aug 2026
Croydon's planning committee is about to lose 72% of its caseload. Here's who decides your scheme instead.
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Committee Watch● LIVE
Where elected members override their officers — and how often they are later proven wrong at appeal.
502 overrides · 168 overturnedOpen →
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Costs Paid● LIVE
Public money awarded against councils for unreasonable refusals. Every figure links to the PINS decision.
£50m+ over 3 yearsOpen →
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Your odds, likely duration and cost of appealing a refusal — modelled on comparable PINS outcomes.
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Winning Arguments● LIVE
A searchable library of the arguments that actually won appeals, by policy theme and borough.
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Inspector League● LIVE
Every PINS inspector ranked by how they decide — overturn rate, policy leanings, what they reward.
403 inspectorsPreview →
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Site History● LIVE
Every application ever lodged at a given plot, over time — the full planning biography of a site.
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Where it’s hardFree
Refusal Hotspots● LIVE
The wards and boroughs where applications die — and the ones that wave almost everything through.
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The Delegation Gap● LIVE
How much each council hands to officers versus committee — and how that changes your odds.
96% decided by officersOpen →
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The Approval Clock● LIVE
How long a decision actually takes by borough and route — not the statutory fiction.
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Objection Power● LIVE
Whether objecting actually changes outcomes — and the number of objections that tips a decision.
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Viability Wars
Affordable housing promised versus delivered after viability reviews, scheme by scheme.
Promised vs builtIn development
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The Reform Effect● LIVE
How shifting council control is changing what gets approved — and where opposition is rising.
A decade of votesOpen →
Insights — what the record shows
Analysis written straight from the Atlas data — refusal patterns, who decides what, and the changes that get schemes through.
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Intelligence
Cross-dataset analysis — appeal overturns, officer patterns, what actually drives outcomes.
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Policy
Policy Explorer
NPPF to borough plan — policies indexed by what they do in practice, with CIL and land supply.
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Constraints
Constraint Library
What each designation does to a scheme — conservation, listed, green belt, PD.
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Mayor & GLA referrals
The strategic tier — what triggers referral and what the Mayor does with them.
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The Planning Inspectorate
The appeals backstop — a quarter of London refusals overturned. Routes, boroughs, and the bench.
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Consultants
Consultant Rankings
Best-performing consultants by approval rate and borough.
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Architect, planning consultant, engineer — matched to your scheme type and borough.
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Borough Performance
All boroughs ranked by approval rate — see the directory below, click any for its full record.
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63%
Politics
Political Record
Party control, planning-committee rosters and how every member votes — all 33 boroughs, from published minutes.
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33 London Boroughs
Barking & Dagenham
4,862 applications
63%
approval
Barnet
17,945 applications
79%
approval
Bexley
10,712 applications
83%
approval
Brent
11,809 applications
70%
approval
Bromley
15,834 applications
79%
approval
Camden
12,736 applications
91%
approval
City Of London
2,559 applications
98%
approval
Croydon
12,458 applications
68%
approval
Ealing
14,405 applications
83%
approval
Enfield
11,482 applications
73%
approval
Greenwich
9,292 applications
73%
approval
Hackney
7,668 applications
79%
approval
Hammersmith & Fulham
9,026 applications
92%
approval
Haringey
16,508 applications
87%
approval
Harrow
10,045 applications
74%
approval
Havering
13,405 applications
71%
approval
Hillingdon
23,057 applications
79%
approval
Hounslow
10,236 applications
70%
approval
Islington
9,406 applications
85%
approval
Kensington & Chelsea
16,429 applications
89%
approval
Kingston
9,902 applications
71%
approval
Lambeth
11,393 applications
78%
approval
Lewisham
9,604 applications
80%
approval
Merton
8,286 applications
87%
approval
Newham
6,983 applications
78%
approval
Redbridge
11,392 applications
74%
approval
Richmond
12,763 applications
80%
approval
Southwark
11,513 applications
91%
approval
Sutton
8,613 applications
75%
approval
Tower Hamlets
6,021 applications
81%
approval
Waltham Forest
8,624 applications
75%
approval
Wandsworth
16,361 applications
92%
approval
Westminster
27,722 applications
89%
approval
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