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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 25,848 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 Richmond upon Thames 176 175 1
99.4%
39
🥈 2 Southwark 225 215 10
95.6%
41
🥉 3 Gateshead Council 16 15 1
93.8%
53
4 Haringey 131 122 9
93.1%
50
5 Wandsworth 242 222 20
91.7%
51
6 Tower Hamlets 109 99 10
90.8%
53
7 Westminster 253 228 25
90.1%
47
8 Sutton 94 84 10
89.4%
51
9 Hillingdon 202 179 23
88.6%
50
10 Ealing 201 175 26
87.1%
41
11 Newham 129 110 19
85.3%
48
12 Camden 55 46 9
83.6%
50
13 Lewisham 12 10 2
83.3%
8
14 Bexley 138 114 24
82.6%
51
15 City of London 1,436 1,175 261
81.8%
47
16 Enfield 254 204 50
80.3%
42
17 Redbridge 257 206 51
80.2%
34
18 Lambeth 172 135 37
78.5%
52
19 Kingston upon Thames 143 112 31
78.3%
54
20 Havering 130 100 30
76.9%
50
21 Greenwich 168 129 39
76.8%
52
22 Barnet 296 226 70
76.4%
41
23 Croydon 202 152 50
75.2%
44
24 Hounslow 158 117 41
74.1%
48
25 Islington 123 91 32
74%
41
26 Barking and Dagenham 11 8 3
72.7%
26
27 Kensington and Chelsea 11 8 3
72.7%
26
28 Hammersmith and Fulham 11 8 3
72.7%
26
29 Brent 180 127 53
70.6%
47
Showing 29 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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