Council analytics · every UK planning authority
Know the council before you commit to it.
One scorecard per authority: how often it approves and how fast, what a scheme of your type has actually faced there, what is being submitted right now and by whom, how its refusals fare at appeal, and the market and housing stock underneath — every figure from a named official source, nothing modelled.
Live screenshots of the Bristol scorecard, 29 August 2026. Every number on this page is the real figure as it stood that day.
8 sections
Decisions, outlook, activity, agents, development pressure, appeals, market, energy — each with its national comparison and rank.
Every UK authority
MHCLG returns for every English council back to 1979; live registers for 363 authorities across all four nations.
Nothing modelled
Each figure names its source and window. Where the data cannot support a number, the page says so instead of estimating.
01 · Decisions and timeliness
Approval and speed, quarter by quarter, against the national line
Is this council getting stricter, or slower — and when did it change?
Approval rate and share decided in time for the last forty quarters, plotted against the current national figure, with decisions per quarter beneath so a swing in the rate is never read without its volume. Rank among the 310 reporting authorities on each measure, with the regional average alongside.
Split by major, minor and other development, because a council that waves through extensions can still refuse most large schemes.
Source · MHCLG planning statistics (PS2), quarterly
02 · Decision outlook
What a scheme of your type has actually faced here
Will it be approved, and how long will it take?
For every application type at the council: the approval rate over determinations (withdrawals excluded, because the council never ruled on them), the median days from validation to decision, and how long the slowest tenth waited — against the 8- and 13-week statutory periods.
Read the median as “expect” and the 90th percentile as “plan for”. Types with fewer than 30 comparable decisions are omitted rather than estimated; thin samples are flagged. The same figures are on the API for any live application.
Source · PlanNexus decided-application record, last 3 years
03 · Live activity
What is being submitted now
Is there work here, and is it rising or falling?
Applications received per month for two years from the council’s own register, scraped several times a day — the demand side that official statistics report a quarter later. Twelve-month and ninety-day totals, the latest three full months against the three before, and the mix by type.
Source · PlanNexus live planning applications
04 · Agents
Who is filing here, and who wins at appeal
Who are the practices to benchmark against, partner with, or win work from?
The agents named on the most applications at the council in the last twelve months with their share, and the agents with the best record at appeal there — allowed against decided, with the sample shown. Names as the council publishes them.
Source · PlanNexus applications · Planning Inspectorate casework
05 · Appeals
How refusals fare at the Inspectorate
If they refuse, is it worth appealing?
Overturn rate — appeals allowed over decided — against the national figure, with rank among 371 councils, the ten-year trend with appeals decided per year beneath, and the split by procedure (written representations, hearing, inquiry).
Source · HM Planning Inspectorate casework (England), PEDW, DPEA, PAC
06 · 07 · Market and energy
The market and the stock underneath
What do homes sell for here, and how much of the stock needs retrofit?
HM Land Registry median sale price by year with sales volume, year-on-year change and the split by property type; the EPC band distribution, share rated C or above against the national figure, and the trend by lodgement year.
Source · HM Land Registry Price Paid · MHCLG EPC register (22M certificates)
Also in the suite
National leaderboards and the pressure map
Busiest authorities by live submissions, the most active agents nationally with their approval records, and the appeal overturn league — plus, on every tracked council’s scorecard, a hex-grid map of where applications are landing, each cell with its own approval record and brownfield sites.
Free public pages
A performance page for every English council at /leagues/planning, plus the appeals and energy leagues, and precedent search — what a council has approved and refused before, by type and constraint. The decision outlook is free on the API for every caller and on every application page.
Everything on the API
Every panel is an endpoint under /v1/analytics and /v1/outlook — JSON, documented, additive-only.
Who uses it
- Planning consultants and architects
- Advise a client on approval odds and timescale from the record, not from memory; pick the appeal route with the council's own overturn history in front of you.
- Developers and land promoters
- Compare councils before committing to a site; read timeliness and volume trends as a proxy for capacity.
- Surveyors, cost consultants and party-wall practices
- See where work is rising, which practices are filing it, and what the local market supports.
- Agents and firms
- Benchmark your own practice against the league in each council you work in.
In every paid plan
The full scorecard for every authority and the national leaderboards are included from Alerts Pro at £19 a month, and in Starter and the Data Feed. The public league tables, council performance pages and the outlook API are free.