Council planning datapacks
For every council we cover, a free civic datapack from the public planning record: how many applications they decide, the share approved, and the approval rate by project type. Pick a council — reporters and councils are welcome to cite these with attribution to MyTrustedTraders.
Descriptive of each council's own record — not a league table. The mix of project types differs between councils, so the overall shares are not directly comparable.
Method
Aggregates over the public planning decisions we hold per council, matched to a project type from the application description. Overall approval is decided-weighted across project types, leading with the last few years where we hold enough decisions; only types with at least five decided applications are counted, and a council-wide figure is shown only once there are enough recent decisions for it to be reliable. Aggregate figures only. For the homeowner view of who to hire, see the trade directory.