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🗓 Submission Timing Intelligence

When is the best month — and weekday — to submit your planning application? Real approval-rate + decision-speed data from 144,135 dated decisions across UK LPAs.

📅 Monthly breakdown per LPA 🏆 Best / worst windows ⚡ Decision-speed by month 🌍 National baseline for context
🏛️ By LPA 🗓 Best LPAs by Month
Shows LPAs ranked by approval rate for applications received in this month.

🏆 Best LPAs to submit in January

These LPAs have the highest approval rate for applications received in January (regardless of when the decision lands). Tie-broken by decision speed. Min 8 decisions per LPA for sample honesty.
📅 Decision lag: most decisions take 6-12 weeks, so a January submission typically gets decided in March–April.

Rank LPA Decisions in January Approved Refused Approval rate Avg days
🥇 1 Darlington 16 16 0
100%
20
🥈 2 Cheltenham 25 25 0
100%
29
🥉 3 Broads 14 14 0
100%
34
4 Canterbury 13 13 0
100%
42
5 City of London 36 36 0
100%
45
6 Gosport 13 13 0
100%
62
7 West Somerset 16 16 0
100%
63
8 Hull 27 27 0
100%
83
9 Guernsey 19 19 0
100%
98
10 Ards and North Down 10 10 0
100%
108
11 Fermanagh and Omagh 10 10 0
100%
110
12 Hammersmith and Fulham 15 15 0
100%
116
13 Bolsover 20 20 0
100%
117
14 Falkirk 8 8 0
100%
124
15 Adur and Worthing 27 27 0
100%
125
16 Armagh Banbridge Craigavon 19 19 0
100%
140
17 Derry and Strabane 16 16 0
100%
189
18 Richmond upon Thames 176 175 1
99.4%
39
19 Dundee 36 35 1
97.2%
52
20 East Riding 136 132 4
97.1%
52
21 Fenland 30 29 1
96.7%
135
22 East Lothian 54 52 2
96.3%
93
23 Hambleton 206 198 8
96.1%
70
24 Copeland 25 24 1
96%
76
25 Bath 246 236 10
95.9%
66
26 Chorley 23 22 1
95.7%
94
27 Southwark 225 215 10
95.6%
41
28 Arun 45 43 2
95.6%
55
29 Durham 200 190 10
95%
67
30 Glamorgan 20 19 1
95%
101
31 Winchester 242 229 13
94.6%
59
32 Aberdeenshire 56 53 3
94.6%
79
33 West Northamptonshire 236 223 13
94.5%
81
34 Eastbourne 89 84 5
94.4%
10
35 Blaby 71 67 4
94.4%
69
36 Forest of Dean 18 17 1
94.4%
106
37 Ryedale 52 49 3
94.2%
98
38 Broxbourne 17 16 1
94.1%
44
39 Conwy 17 16 1
94.1%
91
40 East Lindsey 200 188 12
94%
71
41 Eastleigh 66 62 4
93.9%
63
42 Harrow 48 45 3
93.8%
64
43 Doncaster 64 60 4
93.8%
66
44 Lancaster 15 14 1
93.3%
69
45 Brecon Beacons 45 42 3
93.3%
80
46 Haringey 131 122 9
93.1%
50
47 East Renfrewshire 14 13 1
92.9%
75
48 Exeter 99 92 7
92.9%
94
49 Isle of Man 97 90 7
92.8%
82
50 Dorset 474 437 37
92.2%
45
Showing 50 LPAs with ≥8 decisions in January. LPAs with fewer than 8 decisions in this month excluded for sample-size honesty. Sorted by approval rate (highest first), tiebreak by decision speed.
📊 Data sources & freshness

Use this to identify which LPAs are particularly receptive in a given month. Not a substitute for the per-LPA breakdown — go check the LPA tab for the full picture of your council.

  • planning_applications month aggregate
    Approval rate computed per LPA for applications received in each month. Decisions stretching >365 days excluded as outliers (typically older PINS-derived rows).
  • Sample-size gating
    LPAs with fewer than 8 decisions in the month excluded — too small to rank reliably.
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