™Appeals intelligence
What planning appeals are deciding right now
Every English appeal decision since 2016, read and indexed by issue. These pages show the last 30 days on the issues planners are arguing most, updated daily from the Planning Inspectorate's own decisions.
Grey belt
36 decisions in the last 30 days, 44% allowed
How Inspectors are applying the grey belt, decision by decision: how many appeals engage it, how many succeed, and what was actually proposed on the sites that did.
See the decisionsBiodiversity net gain
58 decisions in the last 30 days, 29% allowed
Where biodiversity net gain is deciding appeals rather than merely appearing in them, and how Inspectors have treated it on recent schemes.
See the decisionsFive year housing land supply
172 decisions in the last 30 days, 28% allowed
The supply position Inspectors have accepted, not the one the council published: which authorities are being found short, and what followed.
See the decisionsGreen belt
95 decisions in the last 30 days, 37% allowed
Very special circumstances, openness and inappropriate development, as Inspectors have actually decided them in the last month.
See the decisionsNutrient neutrality
3 decisions in the last 30 days, 67% allowed
How nutrient neutrality is playing out in appeal decisions across the affected catchments.
See the decisionsPermitted development
49 decisions in the last 30 days, 37% allowed
Prior approval and lawful development appeals: where the GPDO arguments are succeeding and where they are not.
See the decisionsThese pages are a sample. The tool is the point.
Town Planner Pro holds every English appeal since 2016 with the decision letters behind them, searchable by what the Inspector actually reasoned rather than by address alone. Alongside it: each authority's track record, the five year housing land supply position accepted at appeal, costs decisions and the conduct behind them, and the appeals within a chosen radius of your own site.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.