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Non-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 92.0%.

Minor + other applications within 8 weeks, or the time limit agreed with the applicant (planning performance agreement, extension of time or EIA). Agreed extensions count as in time.

Non-major planning decisions made in time (24 months) by council
Rank	Council	Non-major planning decisions made in time (24 months)	Type
=1	Barking and Dagenham	100.0%	London borough
=1	Blackburn with Darwen	100.0%	Unitary council
=1	Rotherham	99.9%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Telford and Wrekin	99.7%	Unitary council
=1	Bury	99.7%	Metropolitan borough
=1	St. Helens	99.7%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Southend-on-Sea	99.5%	Unitary council
8	Hartlepool	99.5%	Unitary council
9	Wokingham	99.2%	Unitary council
10	North Tyneside	99.1%	Metropolitan borough
11	Rutland	98.9%	Unitary council
12	North East Lincolnshire	98.8%	Unitary council
13	Stockport	98.8%	Metropolitan borough
14	Wolverhampton	98.8%	Metropolitan borough
15	Thurrock	98.4%	Unitary council
16	Coventry	98.4%	Metropolitan borough
17	East Riding of Yorkshire	98.2%	Unitary council
18	Luton	97.8%	Unitary council
19	Bexley	97.5%	London borough
20	Sefton	97.5%	Metropolitan borough
21	Plymouth	97.4%	Unitary council
22	Sunderland	97.2%	Metropolitan borough
23	Havering	97.1%	London borough
24	Medway	96.4%	Unitary council
25	Halton	96.3%	Unitary council
26	South Tyneside	96.3%	Metropolitan borough
27	Ealing	96.1%	London borough
28	Isle of Wight	96.0%	Unitary council
29	Sandwell	95.8%	Metropolitan borough
30	Knowsley	95.6%	Metropolitan borough
31	Sutton	95.5%	London borough
32	Islington	95.5%	London borough
33	Lewisham	95.4%	London borough
34	Milton Keynes	95.3%	Unitary council
35	Tameside	95.1%	Metropolitan borough
36	Central Bedfordshire	95.1%	Unitary council
37	Stoke-on-Trent	94.9%	Unitary council
38	Barnet	94.9%	London borough
39	Richmond upon Thames	94.7%	London borough
40	Salford	94.7%	Metropolitan borough
41	Warrington	94.3%	Unitary council
42	Brent	94.2%	London borough
43	Cornwall	94.2%	Unitary council
44	Wiltshire	94.1%	Unitary council
45	Southwark	94.1%	London borough
46	Portsmouth	94.0%	Unitary council
47	Wigan	93.9%	Metropolitan borough
48	Calderdale	93.8%	Metropolitan borough
49	Wirral	93.7%	Metropolitan borough
50	Tower Hamlets	93.5%	London borough
51	Lambeth	93.5%	London borough
52	Manchester	93.4%	Metropolitan borough
53	Hillingdon	93.3%	London borough
54	Oldham	93.2%	Metropolitan borough
55	Rochdale	93.2%	Metropolitan borough
56	Dudley	93.1%	Metropolitan borough
57	Kensington and Chelsea	93.0%	London borough
58	Shropshire	93.0%	Unitary council
59	Darlington	92.7%	Unitary council
60	Southampton	92.5%	Unitary council
61	Redbridge	92.4%	London borough
62	Haringey	92.3%	London borough
63	Leeds	92.2%	Metropolitan borough
64	Dorset	92.1%	Unitary council
65	Cheshire West and Chester	92.1%	Unitary council
66	Trafford	91.9%	Metropolitan borough
67	Northumberland	91.8%	Unitary council
68	Walsall	91.7%	Metropolitan borough
69	Hounslow	91.7%	London borough
70	Windsor and Maidenhead	91.3%	Unitary council
71	Swindon	91.2%	Unitary council
72	Middlesbrough	91.1%	Unitary council
73	Westmorland and Furness	91.1%	Unitary council
74	Bracknell Forest	91.0%	Unitary council
75	Croydon	91.0%	London borough
76	Doncaster	90.9%	Metropolitan borough
77	Liverpool	90.8%	Metropolitan borough
78	Harrow	90.8%	London borough
79	Kirklees	90.6%	Metropolitan borough
80	Stockton-on-Tees	90.4%	Unitary council
81	Greenwich	90.3%	London borough
82	Wakefield	90.1%	Metropolitan borough
83	County Durham	89.9%	Unitary council
84	Wandsworth	89.8%	London borough
85	York	89.3%	Unitary council
86	Derby	89.0%	Unitary council
87	Gateshead	88.8%	Metropolitan borough
88	Hackney	88.7%	London borough
89	North Lincolnshire	88.3%	Unitary council
90	Redcar and Cleveland	88.0%	Unitary council
91	Merton	87.7%	London borough
92	Kingston upon Thames	87.6%	London borough
93	South Gloucestershire	87.6%	Unitary council
94	Sheffield	87.6%	Metropolitan borough
95	Bolton	87.4%	Metropolitan borough
96	Cheshire East	87.3%	Unitary council
97	Newham	87.2%	London borough
98	Hammersmith and Fulham	86.8%	London borough
99	West Northamptonshire	86.6%	Unitary council
100	North Somerset	86.6%	Unitary council
101	West Berkshire	86.6%	Unitary council
102	Somerset	86.1%	Unitary council
103	Bromley	86.1%	London borough
104	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	86.0%	Unitary council
105	Solihull	85.8%	Metropolitan borough
106	Enfield	85.7%	London borough
107	Waltham Forest	85.4%	London borough
108	Bristol, City of	85.2%	Unitary council
109	North Yorkshire	85.1%	Unitary council
110	Blackpool	84.6%	Unitary council
111	North Northamptonshire	84.5%	Unitary council
112	Reading	84.1%	Unitary council
113	Brighton and Hove	84.1%	Unitary council
114	Bedford	84.0%	Unitary council
115	Bradford	83.9%	Metropolitan borough
116	Kingston upon Hull, City of	82.6%	Unitary council
117	Newcastle upon Tyne	82.4%	Metropolitan borough
118	Peterborough	82.4%	Unitary council
119	Buckinghamshire	82.0%	Unitary council
120	Herefordshire, County of	81.7%	Unitary council
121	Nottingham	81.7%	Unitary council
122	Torbay	81.7%	Unitary council
123	Barnsley	81.7%	Metropolitan borough
=124	Camden	81.1%	London borough
=124	Leicester	80.9%	Unitary council
=124	Slough	79.4%	Unitary council
=124	Bath and North East Somerset	79.4%	Unitary council
=124	Westminster	76.1%	London borough
=124	Birmingham	74.1%	Metropolitan borough
=124	Cumberland	72.3%	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: 94.1%
Isles of Scilly: 81.5%