®Stated plainly, refreshed with the data
What is in the record
Every figure on this page is read from the live database when the page is built, so it says what we hold today rather than what we held when someone last wrote the copy. Where a figure is smaller than the headline, it is shown anyway.
Appeal decisions
272,422
English appeal decisions since 2016
Latest decision on file 23 October 2026. Refreshed nightly from the Planning Inspectorate; last refresh 25 October 2026 at 00:06.
163,862
with the Inspector's full letter held
Searchable word for word. The rest are found by address, proposal, authority and outcome; the Inspectorate did not publish a letter for around 11,000 of them, and the earlier years are thinner.
163,670
letters read into structured findings
Main issues as the Inspector framed them, what decided it, the planning balance, policies and judgments cited, and any housing land supply finding, for every letter held, 2016 to today. Read by machine; the wording is a summary and the letter is the record.
170,834
decisions with a mapped site
Placed from the site address or postcode, so they can be shown around a site or an area. Decisions before mid-2021 were published without addresses and cannot be mapped.
372
planning authorities with decisions on record
Every English local planning authority that has had an appeal decided since 2016, including national parks and joint arrangements, counted as the Inspectorate files them: an authority abolished since 2019 keeps its own record, so there are more records than councils today.
6,445
appeals lodged and not yet decided
Tracked from the Inspectorate's published casework until the decision arrives, then the letter is fetched and read.
Joined to the decisions
435
authorities in the local plan register
1,177 plan milestones from the Inspectorate's monitoring register: published, submitted, found sound and adopted, for strategic and non-strategic plans, refreshed monthly.
65
examination hearings on the calendar
First hearing dates as the Inspectorate publishes them, shown against the plan they belong to.
2016 to today
years covered, with the current Framework
The National Planning Policy Framework of 17 August 2026 is the policy text the app works to; decisions since that date can be filtered on their own.
Where it comes from
- Appeal decisions and letters: the Planning Inspectorate’s published casework and its Appeals Casework Database, Open Government Licence v3.0, personal data redacted at source.
- Local plan milestones and hearing dates: the Inspectorate’s local plan monitoring register on GOV.UK.
- Plan documents and stages: the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s planning data platform, alongside the Housing Delivery Test measurement.
- Constraints: the Environment Agency, Natural England, Historic England, Defra, the Office for National Statistics, Ordnance Survey and, in London, the Greater London Authority, each read live from the publisher rather than from a copy.
- Transport: the national bus stop register and open timetable data, and National Rail service data, measured for each site; in London, Transport for London’s PTAL grid.
How we treat it
- Empty over wrong. Where a letter does not state something, the field stays blank. Nothing is guessed to fill a gap.
- Dated, not just stated. Every finding carries the date of the decision it came from, and the position of a plan is shown against the date it was adopted.
- The record, not an opinion. We show what Inspectors decided and how an authority’s appeals have gone. We do not estimate the chances of a case. That judgement belongs to the professional.
- Checked against the source. Counts are cross-checked against the Inspectorate’s own database each quarter, and the search page states the same figures as this one because both read them live.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice; verify against the source before relying on a decision.