UK planning applications: week ending Sun 18 Oct 2026
New applications submitted to UK councils, counted by PlanPulse from each council’s planning portal. Updated weekly.
7,812
applications submitted
357
councils swept (of 358)
-2%
vs previous week
Last 11 weeks
incompletePale bars are weeks where at least one weekday wasn’t swept. They are shown for context and left out of the week-on-week figure.
Busiest councils this week
| Council | Applications |
|---|---|
| Cornwall | 170 |
| Westminster | 151 |
| Wiltshire | 151 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 133 |
| Dorset Council | 129 |
| Bath and North East Somerset | 125 |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council | 117 |
| Leeds | 110 |
| Buckinghamshire | 108 |
| West Northamptonshire | 91 |
What kind of applications
- Full planning23%
- Trees20%
- Conditions and details15%
- Householder10%
- Lawful development certificate6%
- Listed building4%
- Other13%
How we count: PlanPulse reads each council’s public planning register every weekday and counts the new applications it lists. Counts are what each portal published. A council whose portal was unavailable isn’t counted as zero. This isn’t an official statistic; for those, see the government’s planning application statistics.