Planning Approval Rate in Wychavon
Wychavon is close to the England average for planning permission: it approves 85.8% of applications and decides 90.8% of them within the statutory time limit, ranking #213 of 310 English authorities. This page sets out how hard it is to get planning permission in Wychavon, how quickly the council decides, and how it compares with its neighbours — from official government figures plus the live planning activity PlanWatch tracks across Wychavon District Council.
Source: official MHCLG planning statistics (PS2), 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025. Based on 1,076 decisions (923 granted, 153 refused).
How Wychavon compares
| Wychavon | 85.8% |
| West Midlands average | 87.8% |
| England average | 87% |
Wychavon is 1.2 points stricter than the England average.
How hard is it to get planning permission in Wychavon?
Wychavon is in the stricter third of English authorities, granting 85.8% of the applications it decides (rank 213th of 310). That puts it close to the England average — 85.8% approved against an England average of 87%. Within West Midlands it is the 22nd most approving of 30 local planning authorities, where the regional average is 87.8%. Refusals are fairly frequent here: 153 of its 1,076 decisions were refusals (14.2%). On the split by scale it is about as likely to approve major schemes as small ones: 92.4% of major developments approved versus 90.2% of householder and other small-scale work, from 66 major decisions.
On timing it is about average on speed, deciding 90.8% of applications within the statutory period against 90.6% nationally. Its figures rest on a mid-sized caseload of 1,076 decisions over 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025, where the typical English authority decides around 783. Among its West Midlands neighbours it sits between Walsall (86%, more approving) and Stoke-on-Trent (85.7%, stricter). For context in West Midlands, Redditch approves the most (96.2%) and Lichfield the least (79.7%).
Compare Wychavon with nearby councils
Approval rates for other authorities in West Midlands. See the full West Midlands league table.
Approval rate by development scale in Wychavon
Live planning activity in Wychavon District Council
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Planning permission in Wychavon: common questions
Is it hard to get planning permission in Wychavon?
On the latest official figures Wychavon is close to the England average and in the stricter third of English authorities, approving 85.8% of the 1,076 applications it decided over 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025 against 87% for England.
What percentage of planning applications does Wychavon approve or refuse?
Refusals are fairly frequent here: 85.8% approved and 14.2% refused — 923 granted and 153 refused of 1,076 decisions, with major schemes approved at 92.4% and householder and other work at 90.2%.
How quickly does Wychavon decide planning applications?
On timing Wychavon is about average on speed: 90.8% of applications were decided within the statutory period — eight weeks for most, thirteen for major schemes — against 90.6% nationally.
Is Wychavon stricter than nearby councils?
Wychavon's 85.8% approval rate makes it the 22nd most approving of 30 authorities in West Midlands, against a 87.8% regional average. Neighbouring Walsall approves 86% and Stoke-on-Trent 85.7%.
Can I use Wychavon's approval rate to predict whether my application will be approved?
No — the approval rate is a historic average across every application Wychavon 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 Wychavon District 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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