Searchland's UK Planning Authority Approvals Leaderboard ( Live)

Explore live planning approval performance across every UK local planning authority

This interactive planning approvals index provides a comprehensive view of planning approval rates, decision volumes and decision timelines, allowing you to benchmark how different local planning authorities perform in practice.

Whether you're comparing planning authorities, assessing planning risk for new sites, or analysing how approval performance changes over time, this live leaderboard gives you an evidence-led view of UK planning decisions - beyond policy statements alone.

Why is this data important?

Clear insight into planning performance

Planning approval outcomes vary significantly between local planning authorities, affecting development timelines, risk and viability.

This leaderboard goes beyond high-level planning policy to show how local planning authorities actually determine applications, highlighting differences in approval rates, speed of decision-making and consistency across England and Wales.

By combining national planning application records with live performance metrics, Searchland provides a continually updated view of planning authority decision-making, helping planners, developers and consultants make more informed choices.

This isn't a static planning report - it's a live benchmark of UK planning performance you can return to as a market conditions, workloads and policies evolve.

Want to use planning approval data in your own site-finding workflow?

Book a demo to see how Searchland brings together planning approvals data, planning history and site intelligence to support smarter land sourcing and planning risk assessment.