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Planning approval rates by council

Compare planning permission success rates across 289 councils, ranked by approval rate. Based on 3,292,104 real decisions.

Last updated: June 2026

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All councils ranked by approval rate

#CouncilApproval rateDecisionsWards
1 Barking & Dagenham 71.7% 9,041 22
2 East Hertfordshire 73.5% 17,065 52
3 Uttlesford 73.8% 873 22
4 Maldon 75.6% 4,238 17
5 Harrow 75.9% 21,804 27
6 Brent 76.0% 32,958 48
7 Waltham Forest 76.2% 21,093 24
8 Greenwich 78.2% 22,979 47
9 Caerphilly 78.4% 4,904 39
10 Redbridge 78.5% 33,004 47
11 Bradford 79.0% 27,622 30
12 Hillingdon 79.0% 30,584 44
13 Havering 79.3% 23,776 48
14 Enfield 80.0% 31,137 97
15 Kingston 80.2% 24,477 45
16 Thurrock 80.4% 10,789 36
17 Eastleigh 80.6% 25,024 44
18 Bromley 80.9% 36,213 54
19 Croydon 80.9% 40,009 83
20 Torbay 80.9% 5,561 16
21 Barnet 81.7% 54,846 66
22 Cardiff 81.7% 4,803 29
23 Guildford 82.0% 17,793 21
24 Maidstone 82.2% 1,538 21
25 Oadby & Wigston 82.2% 2,238 10
26 Stoke-on-Trent 82.2% 1,697 35
27 Selby 82.7% 5,967 25
28 Gravesham 82.8% 1,474 17
29 Islington 82.8% 85,009 80
30 Lewisham 82.9% 25,419 38
31 Slough 82.9% 17,748 24
32 Wyre 83.0% 625 23
33 Staffordshire Moorlands 83.2% 10,451 0
34 Leicester 83.3% 538 21
35 Birmingham 83.8% 33,120 0
36 Brentwood 83.9% 11,998 17
37 Blackpool 84.1% 675 21
38 Bassetlaw 84.2% 4,572 25
39 Sutton 84.2% 18,303 78
40 Cheshire East 84.3% 14,656 52
41 Windsor & Maidenhead 84.3% 7,447 20
42 Coventry 84.4% 2,372 18
43 Lambeth 84.5% 31,464 91
44 Lichfield 84.6% 2,866 22
45 Newham 84.8% 21,604 48
46 Stafford 84.9% 4,451 23
47 Bexley 85.0% 21,260 57
48 Gloucester 85.1% 4,243 18
49 Pembrokeshire 85.2% 29,349 157
50 Hart 85.6% 10,209 11
51 Bolton 85.7% 4,630 27
52 Chelmsford 85.7% 505 0
53 Swansea 85.7% 3,668 44
54 Castle Point 85.8% 2,950 18
55 Woking 85.8% 7,724 11
56 High Peak 86.1% 8,972 0
57 Pendle 86.1% 3,441 30
58 Hackney 86.2% 8,400 26
59 Merton 86.2% 18,043 67
60 Spelthorne 86.2% 1,484 14
61 Kirklees 86.3% 29,619 23
62 Dartmoor NPA 86.5% 4,303 4
63 Leeds 86.6% 45,050 33
64 Hastings 86.7% 6,065 31
65 Ealing 86.8% 70,894 78
66 Sevenoaks 86.8% 12,687 27
67 Bristol 86.9% 25,431 34
68 South Gloucestershire 87.0% 15,481 39
69 South Staffordshire 87.0% 1,490 20
70 Tameside 87.0% 4,272 20
71 Warrington 87.0% 11,005 23
72 Thanet 87.1% 27,009 23
73 Hertsmere 87.4% 3,948 17
74 Richmond 87.5% 32,944 55
75 Sefton 87.5% 6,655 22
76 Calderdale 87.6% 13,536 22
77 Hounslow 87.6% 72,995 111
78 Peterborough 87.6% 33,444 28
79 Wirral 87.6% 7,846 22
80 Flintshire 87.7% 14,217 52
81 Luton 87.7% 4,287 20
82 New Forest 87.7% 9,108 22
83 Dartford 87.8% 7,697 28
84 Newark & Sherwood 87.8% 10,645 22
85 Ceredigion 87.9% 37,504 41
86 Epsom & Ewell 87.9% 8,139 15
87 Manchester 87.9% 13,750 32
88 Glasgow 88.1% 39,587 23
89 Newport 88.2% 5,674 22
90 Southend-on-Sea 88.2% 1,455 17
91 Trafford 88.2% 13,295 33
92 Isle of Wight 88.3% 14,505 59
93 Haringey 88.4% 24,131 58
94 Portsmouth 88.5% 9,214 14
95 Gwynedd 88.6% 11,003 77
96 Liverpool 88.6% 48,036 104
97 Newry, Mourne and Down District Council 88.6% 12,427 0
98 Reigate & Banstead 88.6% 13,594 17
99 Sunderland 88.6% 10,884 35
100 Wigan 88.6% 5,457 29
101 Rushcliffe 88.8% 7,470 30
102 West Berkshire 88.8% 947 24
103 Tower Hamlets 88.9% 25,537 39
104 Oldham 89.0% 7,038 20
105 Burnley 89.1% 294 15
106 Fenland 89.1% 5,008 40
107 Adur & Worthing 89.4% 35,366 27
108 Dudley 89.4% 13,083 56
109 Kingston upon Hull 89.5% 6,408 21
110 Powys 89.5% 7,183 65
111 Wakefield 89.7% 13,123 21
112 Warwick 89.7% 11,967 27
113 Brighton & Hove 89.8% 3,163 33
114 City of Edinburgh 89.8% 63,954 38
115 Chichester 89.9% 4,451 17
116 Northumberland 89.9% 247 18
117 Barnsley 90.0% 24,616 46
118 Basingstoke & Deane 90.0% 11,547 18
119 Chesterfield 90.2% 4,972 27
120 North East Derbyshire 90.2% 6,477 26
121 North Somerset 90.2% 19,440 36
122 York 90.2% 11,446 21
123 New Forest National Park 90.3% 12,665 0
124 Surrey Heath 90.3% 4,906 17
125 Tonbridge & Malling 90.3% 8,429 35
126 Brecon Beacons National Park 90.4% 13,083 0
127 Great Yarmouth 90.4% 2,578 0
128 East Cambridgeshire 90.5% 11,070 23
129 Sheffield 90.5% 6,768 28
130 Basildon 90.6% 1,446 14
131 Bury 90.6% 5,876 18
132 East Hampshire 90.6% 9,660 25
133 Merthyr Tydfil 90.6% 1,154 11
134 BCP (Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole) 90.7% 258 17
135 Exeter 90.7% 7,061 13
136 Forest of Dean 90.7% 6,291 21
137 Southampton 90.7% 1,007 17
138 Tewkesbury 90.7% 6,912 22
139 Tendring 90.8% 316 21
140 West Lothian 90.8% 13,611 10
141 Westminster 90.8% 64,246 99
142 Cairngorms NP 91.0% 279 6
143 Fife 91.0% 5,821 24
144 Harborough 91.2% 3,703 19
145 Lewes & Eastbourne 91.2% 2,190 18
146 Rossendale 91.2% 589 12
147 Stroud 91.2% 9,722 27
148 Swale 91.2% 1,517 23
149 Test Valley 91.2% 5,558 27
150 Horsham 91.3% 12,690 22
151 Rutland 91.3% 21,492 20
152 Lake District NPA 91.4% 31,946 178
153 Oxford 91.4% 5,623 31
154 Watford 91.5% 4,818 13
155 Doncaster 91.8% 12,085 23
156 Babergh Mid Suffolk 91.9% 10,898 53
157 Cheshire West & Chester 91.9% 16,866 49
158 Hinckley & Bosworth 91.9% 3,962 16
159 Exmoor NPA 92.0% 1,828 0
160 Lancaster 92.1% 4,620 61
161 Pembrokeshire Coast National Park 92.1% 6,873 51
162 Hammersmith & Fulham 92.2% 19,400 46
163 Camden 92.3% 20,687 85
164 Cannock Chase 92.3% 5,351 52
165 Gedling 92.3% 4,362 19
166 Middlesbrough 92.3% 18,723 22
167 Bedford 92.4% 119 10
168 Dorset 92.4% 8,267 53
169 Telford & Wrekin 92.4% 15,051 47
170 Darlington 92.5% 3,194 20
171 Kensington & Chelsea 92.5% 33,240 37
172 King's Lynn & West Norfolk 92.5% 2,312 34
173 Solihull 92.5% 5,467 23
174 Three Rivers 92.5% 3,627 29
175 Torfaen 92.5% 4,871 25
176 Norwich 92.6% 8,461 14
177 Rotherham 92.7% 2,503 25
178 Derby 92.8% 4,507 25
179 Cambridge 92.9% 8,253 43
180 Derbyshire Dales 92.9% 4,538 22
181 Cornwall 93.0% 23,536 185
182 Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council 93.1% 6,397 0
183 Chorley 93.1% 4,216 30
184 Plymouth 93.1% 7,031 20
185 Bromsgrove & Redditch 93.2% 2,219 46
186 Dover 93.2% 6,755 28
187 Sandwell 93.2% 6,733 31
188 South Downs 93.2% 10,511 71
189 Bath & NE Somerset 93.3% 36,819 41
190 Newcastle upon Tyne 93.3% 12,110 32
191 South Kesteven 93.3% 9,367 31
192 Torridge 93.3% 8,293 24
193 Wandsworth 93.3% 27,479 76
194 Blaby 93.4% 3,147 31
195 North Hertfordshire 93.4% 1,524 25
196 Southwark 93.4% 30,054 72
197 Arun 93.6% 3,254 0
198 Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council 93.6% 7,589 0
199 Gateshead 93.7% 7,366 22
200 North East Lincolnshire 93.8% 3,214 15
201 Broadland 93.9% 6,871 53
202 Mid Sussex 93.9% 8,479 28
203 Mid and East Antrim Borough Council 93.9% 7,142 0
204 North Northamptonshire 93.9% 4,914 34
205 Stevenage 93.9% 3,863 14
206 Rugby 94.0% 13,816 28
207 Midlothian 94.1% 1,314 6
208 South Holland 94.1% 1,398 0
209 Aberdeen 94.2% 21,779 14
210 Belfast City Council 94.2% 13,582 0
211 Dundee 94.2% 10,532 8
212 Nottingham 94.2% 7,135 23
213 Redcar and Cleveland 94.2% 11,294 0
214 Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council 94.3% 9,684 0
215 East Ayrshire 94.3% 1,537 9
216 Newcastle-under-Lyme 94.3% 1,038 21
217 Perth & Kinross 94.3% 22,468 12
218 West Suffolk 94.4% 18,659 43
219 Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council 94.5% 10,265 0
220 Broxtowe 94.5% 5,195 25
221 East Lindsey 94.5% 7,059 37
222 Knowsley 94.5% 4,419 15
223 North Tyneside 94.5% 5,900 34
224 North York Moors 94.5% 3,130 0
225 West Lancashire 94.5% 6,826 40
226 West Oxfordshire 94.5% 7,254 27
227 Huntingdonshire 94.7% 4,888 32
228 North Norfolk 94.7% 2,219 32
229 Broads Authority 94.8% 2,368 40
230 Highland 94.8% 2,338 21
231 Swindon 94.8% 4,413 45
232 County Durham 94.9% 15,049 113
233 Winchester 94.9% 6,515 16
234 Blaenau Gwent 95.0% 259 14
235 Canterbury 95.0% 10,849 21
236 Bolsover 95.1% 2,128 17
237 Stockton-on-Tees 95.1% 2,470 30
238 Hartlepool 95.2% 3,502 0
239 Lincoln 95.2% 6,956 11
240 South Ayrshire 95.2% 1,081 8
241 South Ribble 95.3% 4,251 23
242 South Tyneside 95.3% 3,244 0
243 Stirling 95.3% 12,361 7
244 Melton 95.4% 3,818 16
245 Neath Port Talbot 95.4% 20,184 43
246 Cotswold 95.7% 24,038 32
247 Aberdeenshire 95.8% 2,809 19
248 Argyll & Bute 95.9% 4,351 12
249 Cheltenham 96.0% 14,041 20
250 Orkney 96.0% 7,933 6
251 South Norfolk 96.0% 4,579 51
252 Angus 96.1% 14,067 11
253 East Dunbartonshire 96.1% 1,117 7
254 Hambleton 96.2% 4,657 45
255 Fermanagh and Omagh District Council 96.4% 8,576 0
256 Halton 96.5% 2,142 22
257 Inverclyde 96.5% 1,059 7
258 Renfrewshire 96.5% 3,686 12
259 Rushmoor 96.7% 4,373 14
260 South Lanarkshire 96.8% 26,166 20
261 Ards and North Down Borough Council 97.0% 7,954 0
262 OPDC 97.2% 1,267 7
263 Derry City and Strabane District Council 97.3% 7,298 0
264 Carlisle 97.4% 4,938 39
265 Gosport 97.4% 1,717 23
266 North Kesteven 97.4% 571 23
267 Dumfries & Galloway 97.5% 23,176 13
268 Shetland 97.7% 436 15
269 Harlow 97.8% 2,602 24
270 Monmouthshire 97.8% 2,252 43
271 Moray 97.9% 1,511 8
272 Clackmannanshire 98.0% 1,046 5
273 North Ayrshire 98.1% 1,312 14
274 LLDC 98.6% 3,226 4
275 Mid Devon 98.7% 6,098 46
276 Somerset 98.7% 553 4
277 City of London 98.8% 10,342 51
278 Mansfield 98.8% 3,087 38
279 Western Isles 98.9% 1,875 17
280 Fareham 99.1% 2,812 0
281 Falkirk 99.2% 1,005 9
282 Staffordshire 99.4% 1,882 32
283 Dacorum 99.6% 1,647 25
284 North Lanarkshire 99.8% 808 21
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