LPA Profile

What we hold on a single planning authority: appeal behaviour, what they refuse on, which policies they cite, and how current their local plan is. For the national league table and 47-year statistical history, see Council Performance. New: which refusal reasons survive appeal here — measured from real Inspectorate decision letters.

Ealing London Borough Council

GSS E09000009 · Portal: idox (ok) · council register

Applications we hold
1,771
2026-01-02 – 2026-09-11
Refusal rate (our sample)
9.9%
175 of 1,771 — a sample, not the register
Appeals overturned
no PINS appeals matched
Local plan age
14.5 yr
adopted 2012-04
The adopted plan is 14.5 years old. Where housing policies are out of date, NPPF policies S3-S5 may engage the presumption. <a href="local_plan_monitor.php">Check the plan position</a>.

What this authority refuses on

Classified from the reasons in decision notices we hold for this council. Categories can overlap — one reason often engages more than one issue.

Objection typeReasons
Design, scale or layout6
Missing information or evidence3
Principle of development2
Neighbour amenity2

How this council decides

Measured against the published determination target on 1,333 decisions. Average window from valid date to target: 53 days (the statutory period is 56 days for most applications, 91 for majors).

35%
decided early
(4+ days before target)
24%
on the deadline
(final 3 days)
41%
after the target
74
average days
from valid to decision

This authority is mixed: a substantial share of decisions land after the statutory target, so treat the target as indicative.

Which day decisions land

Mon
20.7%
Tue
18.5%
Wed
18.9%
Thu
22.1%
Fri
19.8%

An even working week is 20% a day. Amber marks a day carrying 26% or more.

By application type

TypeDecisionsAfter targetOn deadline
Householder planning permission 202 47% 30%
Lawful development: Proposed use 194 14% 20%
Full planning permission 183 69% 20%
Approval of details reserved by a condition (d 168 39% 13%
Outline 99 14% 47%
Full 97 34% 52%
All Other 87 69% 8%
Conditions 70 20% 21%

What "after the target" means. Published data cannot distinguish an agreed extension of time from a target that was simply missed — both appear the same way. This measures when the decision was issued relative to the statutory target, and nothing more. Deadline data is currently available for London authorities only.

Policies most often cited in refusals

D3 · 6 D4 · 6 D6 · 3 HC1 · 2

Case officers in our data

OfficerApplicationsRefused
Hitarthi Patel 5 4
Eric Pang 5 5
Georgina Heale 5 2
Shirley Ho 4 4
Cheryl Yeung 2 1
Thomas Crump 2 0
Alex Fuller 2 0
John Robertson 1 1

Counts come from the applications we have scraped, which is a fraction of each officer's caseload. Treat as a sample of who is active, not as a performance measure of an individual.

Agents most active here

Agent / firmApplications
Stantec UK Ltd17
Tom Boswell Tree Services Ltd15
MoreSpace11
Red and White11
Allison Tree Services9
Savills8
The Berkeley Tree Company Limited8
RPR Planning Ltd8

Development plan

Development Strategy 2026
Adopted 2012-04-03 · plan period 2011-01-01–2026-01-01
Plan documents

National statistics for this authority →

Councils with data on file

Charnwood (2728) Barnet (2422) Leeds (2328) Dorset (2249) Westminster (2249) Buckinghamshire (2195) BCP (2150) Cornwall (2082) Bromley (2076) Newcastle upon Tyne (2058) Bradford (1958) Gateshead Council (1872) Bath (1852) Ealing (1763) Bristol (1720) Croydon (1634) Brent (1621) Wandsworth (1603) Islington (1504) Enfield (1499) Burnley (1417) Hounslow (1381) Birmingham (1377) Durham (1348)

On the numbers. The refusal rate, officers and agents here are computed from the applications PlanningCore has collected for this authority — for most councils that is a recent sample rather than the full register, and the date range above tells you which. The appeal overturn rate comes from Planning Inspectorate decisions and covers a much longer period. Use the national statistics page for complete, official volumes.

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