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Major planning decisions made in time (24 months)

Higher is better. One of the measures behind the planning score; councils are listed by their rank on it alone, which is not their overall rank. The median of the 130 is 93.7%.

Within 13 weeks, or 16 weeks for environmental impact assessment cases, or the time limit agreed with the applicant (planning performance agreement or extension of time). Agreed extensions count as in time. Government designation measure.

Major planning decisions made in time (24 months) by council
Rank	Council	Major planning decisions made in time (24 months)	Type
=1	Barking and Dagenham	100.0%	London borough
=1	Bexley	100.0%	London borough
=1	Blackburn with Darwen	100.0%	Unitary council
=1	Brent	100.0%	London borough
=1	Bromley	100.0%	London borough
=1	Bury	100.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Ealing	100.0%	London borough
=1	Haringey	100.0%	London borough
=1	Islington	100.0%	London borough
=1	Kensington and Chelsea	100.0%	London borough
=1	Lambeth	100.0%	London borough
=1	Medway	100.0%	Unitary council
=1	North Tyneside	100.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Plymouth	100.0%	Unitary council
=1	Richmond upon Thames	100.0%	London borough
=1	South Tyneside	100.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Southampton	100.0%	Unitary council
=1	Southend-on-Sea	100.0%	Unitary council
=1	Stockport	100.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Sutton	100.0%	London borough
=1	Tameside	100.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Wokingham	100.0%	Unitary council
23	Cheshire West and Chester	99.1%	Unitary council
24	Rotherham	98.9%	Metropolitan borough
25	North East Lincolnshire	98.6%	Unitary council
26	Sefton	98.4%	Metropolitan borough
27	Telford and Wrekin	98.4%	Unitary council
28	Salford	98.2%	Metropolitan borough
29	Greenwich	97.9%	London borough
30	Camden	97.7%	London borough
31	Leicester	97.6%	Unitary council
32	Oldham	97.6%	Metropolitan borough
33	Merton	97.4%	London borough
34	Hillingdon	97.4%	London borough
35	Wolverhampton	97.3%	Metropolitan borough
=36	Halton	97.2%	Unitary council
=36	Hartlepool	97.2%	Unitary council
38	Sandwell	97.0%	Metropolitan borough
39	East Riding of Yorkshire	96.8%	Unitary council
40	Kirklees	96.8%	Metropolitan borough
41	Lewisham	96.8%	London borough
42	Stoke-on-Trent	96.5%	Unitary council
43	Westmorland and Furness	95.9%	Unitary council
44	Middlesbrough	95.7%	Unitary council
45	Barnet	95.6%	London borough
46	Rutland	95.3%	Unitary council
=47	St. Helens	95.0%	Metropolitan borough
=47	Warrington	95.0%	Unitary council
49	Sunderland	94.9%	Metropolitan borough
50	Calderdale	94.8%	Metropolitan borough
51	Redbridge	94.6%	London borough
=52	Brighton and Hove	94.5%	Unitary council
=52	Newham	94.5%	London borough
=52	Wigan	94.5%	Metropolitan borough
=55	Nottingham	94.4%	Unitary council
=55	Redcar and Cleveland	94.4%	Unitary council
57	Manchester	94.3%	Metropolitan borough
=58	Dudley	94.1%	Metropolitan borough
=58	Stockton-on-Tees	94.1%	Unitary council
=58	York	94.1%	Unitary council
61	Coventry	94.1%	Metropolitan borough
62	Havering	93.9%	London borough
63	Wakefield	93.9%	Metropolitan borough
64	North Northamptonshire	93.9%	Unitary council
65	Cheshire East	93.8%	Unitary council
66	Windsor and Maidenhead	93.7%	Unitary council
67	Knowsley	93.5%	Metropolitan borough
68	Milton Keynes	93.4%	Unitary council
69	Waltham Forest	93.1%	London borough
70	Gateshead	92.9%	Metropolitan borough
71	Swindon	92.8%	Unitary council
72	West Northamptonshire	92.4%	Unitary council
=73	Hounslow	92.3%	London borough
=73	Wandsworth	92.3%	London borough
=73	Westminster	92.3%	London borough
76	County Durham	92.2%	Unitary council
=77	Kingston upon Thames	92.2%	London borough
=77	Luton	92.2%	Unitary council
79	Trafford	91.9%	Metropolitan borough
=80	Hammersmith and Fulham	91.7%	London borough
=80	Tower Hamlets	91.7%	London borough
82	Northumberland	91.3%	Unitary council
83	Croydon	91.2%	London borough
=84	Darlington	91.2%	Unitary council
=84	Derby	91.2%	Unitary council
=86	South Gloucestershire	91.1%	Unitary council
=86	Wirral	91.1%	Metropolitan borough
88	Torbay	90.9%	Unitary council
89	Dorset	90.7%	Unitary council
90	Bath and North East Somerset	90.4%	Unitary council
91	Leeds	89.6%	Metropolitan borough
92	Cornwall	89.4%	Unitary council
93	Central Bedfordshire	89.3%	Unitary council
94	Wiltshire	89.1%	Unitary council
95	Thurrock	89.1%	Unitary council
=96	Blackpool	88.9%	Unitary council
=96	Portsmouth	88.9%	Unitary council
98	Buckinghamshire	88.6%	Unitary council
99	Harrow	88.5%	London borough
=100	Hackney	88.2%	London borough
=100	Walsall	88.2%	Metropolitan borough
102	Doncaster	87.8%	Metropolitan borough
103	Newcastle upon Tyne	87.7%	Metropolitan borough
104	Sheffield	87.1%	Metropolitan borough
=105	Bolton	87.0%	Metropolitan borough
=105	North Somerset	87.0%	Unitary council
=107	Bradford	86.5%	Metropolitan borough
=107	Solihull	86.5%	Metropolitan borough
=107	West Berkshire	86.5%	Unitary council
110	Herefordshire, County of	86.4%	Unitary council
111	Liverpool	86.0%	Metropolitan borough
112	Slough	85.7%	Unitary council
113	Southwark	85.1%	London borough
114	Enfield	84.6%	London borough
115	Somerset	84.1%	Unitary council
116	North Lincolnshire	83.7%	Unitary council
117	Bedford	83.7%	Unitary council
118	Peterborough	83.3%	Unitary council
119	Rochdale	83.1%	Metropolitan borough
120	Bracknell Forest	82.9%	Unitary council
121	Isle of Wight	82.8%	Unitary council
122	Shropshire	81.8%	Unitary council
123	Barnsley	81.6%	Metropolitan borough
=124	Bristol, City of	81.3%	Unitary council
=124	Birmingham	80.8%	Metropolitan borough
=124	North Yorkshire	80.7%	Unitary council
=124	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	79.3%	Unitary council
=124	Kingston upon Hull, City of	75.7%	Unitary council
=124	Reading	67.7%	Unitary council
=124	Cumberland	67.3%	Unitary council

Period: 2024 Q3 to 2026 Q2. Source: MHCLG — Planning application statistics (PS2). Councils with the same figure share a rank, and so do those beyond the 5th and 95th percentiles, because extreme values are capped before scoring (why). How we score

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City of London: 97.8%
Isles of Scilly: 100.0%