Refusal decisions · 27 July–2 August 2026

2026-W31 · Official decision dates

68Known council refusals

9Full grounds

0Partial grounds

59No published grounds

Known decisions from our retained council and national planning inventory; national coverage is incomplete.

Full, partial and pending grounds are counted separately. Missing planner assessments do not hold up verified final grounds. Commission decisions, mixed grant/refusal decisions and later appeal outcomes are excluded from these council refusal totals.

Updated 11 September 2026 at 17:04 UTC. Collection and local processing continue; this edition updates only after a checked publication.

Decision inventory cutoff: 09 September 2026 at 04:36 UTC. Later document reviews can improve grounds without changing this inventory.

This refusal-only revision uses official decision dates. Earlier full-week bundles retain their original membership provenance. View the earlier published edition, where available.

What this means

9 of 68 known council refusals have complete verified formal grounds; 0 have partial grounds and 59 have no published grounds. The themes below describe only the 9 cases with published grounds, not all refusals in the week.

9 of 68 records carry official reason text

25 published statements, 2.8 per analysed application

5 refused on more than one ground, up to 5

Common pairs in analysed cases

6 Design + Transport/access
5 Design + Missing evidence
5 Design + Residential amenity

Themes in analysed cases

Applications · statements

01 Design, scale, character or visual impact 9
02 Traffic, access, parking or road safety 6
03 Missing or insufficient evidence, surveys or technical detail 5
04 Zoning, land use, settlement policy or rural housing need 5
05 Residential amenity, privacy, light or noise 5
06 Surface-water drainage or flood risk 4
07 Ecology, habitats or Natura impacts 3
08 Wastewater, effluent, groundwater or public health 3
09 Built heritage or archaeology 1
10 Unauthorised development, retention or procedural history 1

Themes overlap, so an application can appear under more than one theme.

How this is counted

Week of 27 July–2 August 2026. This analysis covers 9 of 68 known decisions, using only their published formal grounds. Counts and common pairs describe those analysed cases. Partial sets may omit further themes; they do not count as complete ground sets. Every figure comes from the official refusal reasons.

A reason can support more than one theme. Counts show affected applications and published reason statements.

Standard statutory conclusions are tracked separately and are not treated as refusal causes on their own.

Proper planning and sustainable development7
Development plan cited9
Undesirable precedent cited2

Every published reason statement fitted at least one of the ten substantive themes.

The summary covers the whole stated weekly inventory. County filters and pagination change only the case list.

Known decisions and source evidence

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