Insights

Lewisham's planning committee is about to lose 83% of its caseload. Here's who decides your scheme instead.

From 31 October the national scheme of delegation applies in Lewisham. Of the committee's classified caseload over the last twelve months, 83% was exactly the minor and householder work that must now be officer-decided.

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Greenwich's planning committee is about to lose 82% of its caseload. Here's who decides your scheme instead.

From 31 October the national scheme of delegation applies in Greenwich. Of the committee's classified caseload over the last twelve months, 82% was exactly the minor and householder work that must now be officer-decided.

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Croydon's planning committee is about to lose 72% of its caseload. Here's who decides your scheme instead.

From 31 October the national scheme of delegation applies in Croydon. Of the committee's classified caseload over the last twelve months, 72% was exactly the minor and householder work that must now be officer-decided.

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Camden's planning committee is about to lose 60% of its caseload. Here's who decides your scheme instead.

From 31 October the national scheme of delegation applies in Camden. Of the committee's classified caseload over the last twelve months, 60% was exactly the minor and householder work that must now be officer-decided.

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London has processed more than 90,000 tree applications since 2020. Almost none of the routine pruning is refused.

Tree applications return to the same sites every 1.3 years, yet councils objected to just 0.19% of conservation-area pruning notices. The record points to a simpler way.

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From 31 October, most planning applications can never go to committee. Here is what that means for your scheme.

The national scheme of delegation takes the decision on who decides out of each council's hands and writes it into law — the same for all 317 authorities, including every London borough.

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Bromley's planning committee is about to lose 88% of its caseload. Here's who decides your scheme instead.

From 31 October the national scheme of delegation applies in Bromley as everywhere. Of the committee's classified caseload last year, 88% was exactly the minor and householder work that must now be officer-decided.

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Who really decides your application — and why it is rarely the committee

Across London the large majority of planning decisions never reach a committee. They are made by named case officers whose track records are public but almost never read. Here is how to read them.

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What London refuses on — the grounds that sink applications

Refusals are not random. Across the London record a small set of grounds accounts for most of them, and they cluster by borough and officer. Knowing which ones, where, is the edge.

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Who is actually building in London right now

The planning record shows who is genuinely active — the developers and operators filing repeatedly, where, and how often they win. It is the clearest read on live development demand in the capital.

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