Waltham Forest is a London borough with an approval rate of 75% across 8,624 substantive planning decisions spanning 24 wards. Most decisions here are made under delegation rather than at committee.[1]
Outer London24 wards284 appeals99% delegatedSave
Waltham Forest · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%Higher ~90%
ShowingAll years · subscriber →across all years on record — a period re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
What wins here — Waltham Forest's policy playbook[3]
What Waltham Forest actually approves — its whole decision record, by application type — and the grounds its committee refuses on. Click through for the refusal grounds and the policies cited in the minutes.
Councillors on Waltham Forest's planning committee, by their recorded committee votes. “Leaning” = whether they tend to vote to approve or refuse. Full voting records →
The adopted Waltham Forest Local Plan (targets, CIL, plan period) is a separate source still being loaded. What the record already shows: which applications win here, and the grounds refusals cite.
[1]Approval rates, decision times, delegation and ward breakdowns — London Borough of Waltham Forest planning register and published decision notices, 2020–2026. · methodology
[3]“What wins here” — Waltham Forest’s substantive decision record grouped by application type; committee refusal grounds and cited policies coded from published committee minutes.
[4]Condition load — mean effective conditions attached to Waltham Forest grant/split decision notices, parsed from the published notice text (1,082 high-confidence notices).
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.