Planning Approval Rate in Haringey
Haringey is close to the England average for planning permission: it approves 85.3% of applications and decides 93.1% of them within the statutory time limit, ranking #222 of 310 English authorities. This page sets out how hard it is to get planning permission in Haringey, how quickly the council decides, and how it compares with its neighbours — from official government figures plus the live planning activity PlanWatch tracks across Haringey Council.
Source: official MHCLG planning statistics (PS2), 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025. Based on 1,414 decisions (1,206 granted, 208 refused).
How Haringey compares
| Haringey | 85.3% |
| London average | 82.5% |
| England average | 87% |
Haringey is 1.7 points stricter than the England average.
How hard is it to get planning permission in Haringey?
Haringey is in the stricter third of English authorities, granting 85.3% of the applications it decides (rank 222nd of 310). That puts it close to the England average — 85.3% approved against an England average of 87%. Within London it is the 13th most approving of 34 local planning authorities, where the regional average is 82.5%. Refusals are fairly frequent here: 208 of its 1,414 decisions were refusals (14.7%). On the split by scale it is somewhat more lenient on major schemes than on small ones: 100% of major developments approved versus 88.1% of householder and other small-scale work, from 14 major decisions.
On timing it is a little faster than average, deciding 93.1% of applications within the statutory period against 90.6% nationally. Its figures rest on one of the heavier caseloads of 1,414 decisions over 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025, where the typical English authority decides around 783. Among its London neighbours it sits between Westminster (86.1%, more approving) and Ealing (85.2%, stricter). For context in London, Hammersmith and Fulham approves the most (97.2%) and Barking and Dagenham the least (66.2%).
Compare Haringey with nearby councils
Approval rates for other authorities in London. See the full London league table.
Approval rate by development scale in Haringey
Live planning activity in Haringey Council
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Planning permission in Haringey: common questions
Is it hard to get planning permission in Haringey?
On the latest official figures Haringey is close to the England average and in the stricter third of English authorities, approving 85.3% of the 1,414 applications it decided over 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025 against 87% for England.
What percentage of planning applications does Haringey approve or refuse?
Refusals are fairly frequent here: 85.3% approved and 14.7% refused — 1,206 granted and 208 refused of 1,414 decisions, with major schemes approved at 100% and householder and other work at 88.1%.
How quickly does Haringey decide planning applications?
On timing Haringey is a little faster than average: 93.1% of applications were decided within the statutory period — eight weeks for most, thirteen for major schemes — against 90.6% nationally.
Is Haringey stricter than nearby councils?
Haringey's 85.3% approval rate makes it the 13th most approving of 34 authorities in London, against a 82.5% regional average. Neighbouring Westminster approves 86.1% and Ealing 85.2%.
Can I use Haringey's approval rate to predict whether my application will be approved?
No — the approval rate is a historic average across every application Haringey decided, not a prediction for any individual application; your outcome depends on the site, the proposal, local planning policy and any objections.
Methodology & limits
Approval, refusal and in-time rates come from the government's official PS2 planning application statistics (Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government), covering 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025. This dataset is England-only and published annually, so it lags live activity. Live figures are the applications PlanWatch has collected for Haringey Council and are not a complete council register. Refusal reasons and delegated-vs-committee splits are not published in this data.
This is a historic average, not a prediction. It cannot tell you whether your application will be approved — that depends on your site, proposal, local policy and any objections.
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