About the tracker

What each record holds

• Its latest adopted plan: name, date adopted, age in years, plan period and housing requirement.
• Its plan in preparation, the most advanced one: its stage, its latest event with the date, and the next event it has dated.
• Its Housing Delivery Test result: the newest measurement GOV.UK publishes, found by itself each year. The map groups it by the thresholds in the NPPF (August 2026), Annex D, paragraph 12: 95% or more, 85 to 94%, 75 to 84% and below 75%. Each threshold's consequence is in that paragraph.
• Its planning applications over the last four quarters: received, decided, granted and refused, in total and for major applications, quarter by quarter.
• Its appeals decided by the Planning Inspectorate over the last five years: planning and householder appeals allowed, split and dismissed, and its 10 latest planning appeals (site, development, procedure, outcome, date and case number). No appellant, agent or inspector names are kept.
• Flags: an adopted plan over five years old, no adopted plan on record, and a Housing Delivery Test measurement below 75%.

Stages are on one scale for the old system and the 2026 one: Getting started, Early consultation (Regulation 18, or the 2026 system's content and evidence consultation), Proposed plan (Regulation 19, or the proposed plan consultation), Submitted, At examination, Inspector's report, Adopted.

Where it comes from

• The planning data platform (MHCLG): organisation.csv (each authority's codes), local-plan.csv and plan-timetable.csv, from files.planning.data.gov.uk.
• Housing Delivery Test (MHCLG): the newest HDT_results_<year>.ods on GOV.UK.
• Planning application statistics (MHCLG): the PS1 and PS2 tables for the last four quarters, from the live tables on planning application statistics on GOV.UK.
• Appeals (Planning Inspectorate): the casework database on GOV.UK, every appeal decided in the last five years, updated each quarter.
• Planning authority boundaries: local-planning-authority.csv from the planning data platform. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

All under the Open Government Licence v3.0: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

The latest read on 17 October 2026 took 989 plans, 8,709 timetable events and 297 Housing Delivery Test results.

Boundaries: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Known gaps in the plan data

• 115 authorities have no plan in preparation in the national data. Most councils are preparing a new plan, so many of these are gaps in the data, not councils doing nothing.
• 24 adopted plans have no date of adoption in the national data, so their age is not shown.
• 6 have no adopted plan in the national data: Amber Valley Borough Council, Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, Hartlepool Development Corporation, Middlesbrough Development Corporation, Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council, West Suffolk Council. Development corporations work to their councils' plans.
• 7 councils formed from former districts have no plan of their own yet, so each district's plan is listed: Buckinghamshire Council, Cumberland Council, North Northamptonshire Council, North Yorkshire Council, Somerset Council, West Northamptonshire Council, Westmorland and Furness Council. Their age is that of the oldest dated plan.
• A plan's stage is as recent as the council's last update to the platform. A plan may have moved on, or been adopted, before the platform shows it.
• Some councils file a later adoption, or a newer plan's steps, under an older plan's entry. The tracker takes the latest adoption recorded on either, and shows steps dated after a plan's adoption as a later plan in preparation, named after the entry it was filed under.
• Some councils record the same plan twice, or under another council's code. The tracker matches each plan to its authority by every code the platform uses, and checks the result each week, but a mistake in the source can still show through.

Applications, appeals and Housing Delivery Test results are counted again from the official files every week, and the update stops if any figure does not match.

What it leaves out

• The platform holds what councils send it, so a plan, a date or a stage may be missing or late. A plan may be recorded as adopted with no date: it counts, its date and age left blank. The site says so beside the figures and lists the gaps on its about page, counted from each week's data.
• A council formed from former districts that has no plan of its own shows each district's newest plan; its age is that of the oldest dated one.
• "What changed" lists a plan adopted, or a step taken, more than 180 days earlier that appears only now as a record added late or corrected, not as news.
• Five-year housing land supply has no national source: councils publish it in their own documents. It is not here.
• Applications are counted as councils return them to MHCLG, prior approvals included; a council that misses a return shows a gap. Appeals cover planning and householder appeals decided on their merits; withdrawn and invalid appeals, enforcement and other casework are left out. A council with fewer than 10 appeals decided is not shaded on the map.
• Housing need by the standard method is not here yet.

How it is made

Code reads the sources every Monday and rebuilds these pages, with no one editing the figures, so the same sources always give the same answer. It reports what councils have published and does not predict outcomes.

The pages set no cookies, carry no analytics and ask nothing of any other site: the fonts and the map are served from here.