The planning record, one fact at a time.
Short, reusable findings generated from the same records that power the Atlas. Every statement opens the page that proves it.
65,777 were approved, an approval rate of 83.6% across the borough records with that year available.
Only boroughs with at least 100 decided applications in the selected year are compared.
Their median decision time was 5.4 weeks.
These records are commonly mixed into headline planning totals even though they are not building development.
Roughly one council decision in four was overturned. The Atlas links through to the underlying inspector and borough records.
The archive records a 59% allow rate for inquiries and 26% for written representations. Route and case mix matter.
1,517 decided applications across 27 boroughs. Volume threshold shown to avoid ranking tiny samples.