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Guidance: Appeals: how long they take

Planning Inspectorate

February 22
10:00 2024

Cases decided in January 2024 Summary

S78 & Householder appeals

Median (weeks) Mean (weeks) Decisions
s78 planning appeals Written Reps 32 34 817
s78 planning appeals Hearings 28 40 39
s78 planning appeals Inquiries 35* 36* 15*
Householder appeals Written Reps 18 21 301

Enforcement appeals

Includes s174 enforcement appeals, s39 enforcement listed building appeals and lawful development certificate appeals

Median (weeks) Mean (weeks) Decisions
Written Reps 46 51 167
Hearings 70 72 23
Inquiries 81 * 63* 17*

Mean Average - The total time taken divided by the number of cases. Also referred to as the average. A measure of how long each case would take, if the total time taken was spread evenly across all cases.

Median - The middle value, if the times are sorted. This means that half the cases take less then this time; and half the cases take more.

Decisions number of decisions made.

Please note that the times given here are measured from the time an appeal which we are able to progress (valid) to the time a decision is issued.

The smaller the number of decisions, the less helpful the mean and median are as measures for summarising performance. Particular care should be taken when there are fewer than twenty decisions. These are represented with an * in the table, but have been provided for completeness and transparency.

Each of the measures give a slightly different view of the average time taken to make a decision, both are provided because neither gives a perfect indication of the average. The mean is potentially affected by a small number of cases taking a long time and this gives an over-estimate. The median is less affected by these few longer cases so may give a more helpful indication of the average.

The mean was published previously so we are publishing it to allow users to compare current with previous data.

In making use of the data provided, users are reminded that some decisions made in the latest month were on cases submitted a years or more before as such, while they are the most recent snapshot available, they should not be relied on to give a reliable indication of what will happen to a case submitted recently or in the future.

We are reviewing our published information in order to make it more useful and accessible to users please get in touch with us at statistics@planninginspectorate.gov.uk if you have suggestions on how we could improve the information we provide to you.

Published 1 January 2014
Last updated 22 February 2024 +show all updates
  1. January 2024 data added

  2. stats updated for December.

  3. November data added to tables

  4. Cases decided in October 2023

  5. Cases decided in September 2023 Summary updated

  6. Updated appeal handling time averages for August 2023

  7. July 2023 data added

  8. Tables updated with June 2023 data

  9. May 2023 data added

  10. March 2023 data added

  11. Tables updated with March data

  12. Data updated with cases decided in February 2023

  13. Cases decided in January 2023 updated

  14. The table has been updated today on the number and length of decisions made in December 2022

  15. November 2022 - Decisions summary updated

  16. October 2022 - Decisions summary updated

  17. September 2022 - Decisions summary data added

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