Tower Hamlets is a London borough with an approval rate of 86% across 33,262 substantive planning decisions spanning 22 wards. Most decisions here are made under delegation rather than at committee.[1]
Inner London22 wards225 appeals98% delegated
Wards shaded by approval rate · click one to open it
ShowingAll years · subscriber →across all years on record — a period re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
What wins here — Tower Hamlets's policy playbook[3]
What Tower Hamlets actually approves — its whole decision record, by application type — and the grounds its committee refuses on. Click through for the refusal grounds and the policies cited in the minutes.
Councillors on Tower Hamlets's planning committee, by their recorded committee votes. “Leaning” = whether they tend to vote to approve or refuse. Full voting records →
The adopted Tower Hamlets Local Plan (targets, CIL, plan period) is a separate source still being loaded. What the record already shows: which applications win here, and the grounds refusals cite.
[1]Approval rates, decision times, delegation and ward breakdowns — London Borough of Tower Hamlets planning register and published decision notices, 1996–Wed . · methodology
[3]“What wins here” — Tower Hamlets’s substantive decision record grouped by application type; committee refusal grounds and cited policies coded from published committee minutes.
[4]Condition load — mean effective conditions attached to Tower Hamlets grant/split decision notices, parsed from the published notice text (1,136 high-confidence notices).
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.