Planning Approval Rate in Oadby and Wigston
Oadby and Wigston is markedly stricter than the typical English council for planning permission: it approves 71.7% of applications and decides 94.3% of them within the statutory time limit, ranking #305 of 310 English authorities. This is the approval-rate record for Oadby and Wigston: how hard it is to get planning permission, how quickly the council decides, and how it compares with its neighbours, from official government statistics.
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Source: official MHCLG planning statistics (PS2), 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025. Based on 279 decisions (200 granted, 79 refused).
How Oadby and Wigston compares
| Oadby and Wigston | 71.7% |
| East Midlands average | 89.8% |
| England average | 87% |
Oadby and Wigston is 15.3 points stricter than the England average.
How hard is it to get planning permission in Oadby and Wigston?
Oadby and Wigston is among the ten per cent strictest authorities in England, granting 71.7% of the applications it decides (rank 305th of 310). That puts it markedly stricter than the typical English council — 71.7% approved against an England average of 87%. Within East Midlands it is the strictest of 35 local planning authorities, where the regional average is 89.8%. Refusals are common here: 79 of its 279 decisions were refusals (28.3%). On the split by scale it is strikingly more lenient on major schemes than on small ones: 100% of major developments approved versus 70.6% of householder and other small-scale work, from 8 major decisions.
On timing it is a little faster than average, deciding 94.3% of applications within the statutory period against 90.6% nationally. Its figures rest on a relatively light caseload of 279 decisions over 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025, where the typical English authority decides around 783. It is stricter than its nearest East Midlands peer by rank, South Holland (81.6%). At the other end of East Midlands, North Kesteven is the most approving, at 97.2%.
Compare Oadby and Wigston with nearby councils
Approval rates for other authorities in East Midlands. See the full East Midlands league table.
Approval rate by development scale in Oadby and Wigston
Live planning activity in Oadby and Wigston Borough Council
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What people apply for in Oadby and Wigston Borough Council
Where planning activity concentrates in Oadby and Wigston Borough Council
Recent applications in Oadby and Wigston Borough Council
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Planning permission in Oadby and Wigston: common questions
Is it hard to get planning permission in Oadby and Wigston?
On the latest official figures Oadby and Wigston is markedly stricter than the typical English council and among the ten per cent strictest authorities in England, approving 71.7% of the 279 applications it decided over 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025 against 87% for England.
What percentage of planning applications does Oadby and Wigston approve or refuse?
Refusals are common here: 71.7% approved and 28.3% refused — 200 granted and 79 refused of 279 decisions, with major schemes approved at 100% and householder and other work at 70.6%.
How quickly does Oadby and Wigston decide planning applications?
On timing Oadby and Wigston is a little faster than average: 94.3% of applications were decided within the statutory period — eight weeks for most, thirteen for major schemes — against 90.6% nationally.
Is Oadby and Wigston stricter than nearby councils?
Oadby and Wigston's 71.7% approval rate makes it the strictest of 35 authorities in East Midlands, against a 89.8% regional average. Neighbouring South Holland approves 81.6%.
Can I use Oadby and Wigston's approval rate to predict whether my application will be approved?
No — the approval rate is a historic average across every application Oadby and Wigston 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 Oadby and Wigston Borough 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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