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London Borough of Tower Hamlets planning applications

Data as of 5 November 2026

London Borough of Tower Hamlets decided more than 2,100 planning applications in the twelve months to 5 November 2026. It refused 10% of those it approved or refused, about the same as the middle UK council (9%), and took a median of 56 days to decide one.

Look up one application

Search by reference or address on London Borough of Tower Hamlets’s own planning portal. Or ask Claude, with the PlanningLedger connector, to find it and read its officer report and decision notice (mcp.planningledger.com).

Recent major decisions

Figures for London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Decisions: the twelve months to 5 November 2026, from London Borough of Tower Hamlets’s published planning register. Appeals: decided from 6 November 2023 to 5 November 2026, from the appeal body’s casework.
Applications decided more than 2,100
Share refusedof those approved or refused 10%middle UK council 9%
Median time to a decisionfrom the valid date 56 daysmiddle UK council 55 days
Householder applications refusedextensions, lofts, outbuildings 11%of more than 200 decided
Appeals decidedin the last three years more than 200
Appeals allowedof those decided on their merits 28%about one in four
Officer reports and decision notices searchable back to 2017
Local Plan policies held 59plan adopted 2020

What inspectors decide appeals on

In their own words, from recent appeal decisions on London Borough of Tower Hamlets’s planning applications.

  • “The main issue is the effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the appeal building.”

    Allowed, 2021

How we count, and what each figure leaves out: methodology. The council’s own register is the record, and each application links to it.