Where permission is easiest
Between the most and least permissive borough sits thirty-seven percentage points.
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| Series | Period or category | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Value | City of London | 87.7 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Southwark | 81.4 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Tower Hamlets | 78.1 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Camden | 76.7 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Westminster | 76.3 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Merton | 76.1 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Wandsworth | 74.9 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Hillingdon | 74.8 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Lambeth | 73.3 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Lewisham | 72.7 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Greenwich | 72.1 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Croydon | 72.1 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Brent | 71.8 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Bexley | 71.6 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Newham | 70 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Hackney | 70 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Haringey | 68.8 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Waltham Forest | 68.4 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Enfield | 68.3 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Barnet | 67.9 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Hammersmith and Fulham | 67.5 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Sutton | 64.2 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Redbridge | 64 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Barking and Dagenham | 63.7 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Ealing | 62.8 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Bromley | 61.6 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Richmond upon Thames | 60.8 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Hounslow | 58.9 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Harrow | 54.4 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Islington | 51.1 | % of applications approved |
| Value | Havering | 50.4 | % of applications approved |
Methodology
Approved applications as a share of all applications a borough has recorded — withdrawals and undecided cases stay in the denominator, because the question is how likely permission is and a withdrawal is often a refusal that saw itself coming. Two boroughs are excluded for filing fewer than 10,000 records: boroughs joined the Datahub at different times and backfilled different amounts, and a rate drawn from a thin sample describes the sample. For the same reason this atlas publishes no chart of applications per borough — Islington files 130,089 records and Kingston 3,238, which is a fact about record-keeping rather than about building.
Provenance
- Source
- Planning London Datahub
- Cadence
- daily
- Engine
- comparison
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0