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Portsmouth

Limited recent decision data is available for Portsmouth, so we don't show a headline approval rate here — the figures below cover all application types on record.

Across all application types on record (2023-01-30–2026-04-09): 89.1% of 3,070 decisions approved.

3,704Total applications
2,734Approved
336Refused
140Withdrawn
463Pending
89.1%Approval rate (all types)
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Decision Level
3,465Delegated
239Not Available
By Development Category
CategoryTotalApprovedRefusedApproval rate
Full Planning Application 884 763 121
86.3%
Householder 649 568 81
87.5%
Discharge of Conditions 293 289 4
98.6%
Tree Works (TPO) 273 244 29
89.4%
General Permitted Development 168 154 14
91.7%
Advertisement Consent 143 136 7
95.1%
Listed Building Consent 110 100 10
90.9%
Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing) 109 104 5
95.4%
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed) 100 86 14
86.0%
Variation/Removal of Conditions (S73) 95 89 6
93.7%
Non-Material Amendment (S96a) 82 65 17
79.3%
Planning Regularise 73 61 12
83.6%
Prior Approval (Other) 62 48 14
77.4%
Demolition 10 10 0
100.0%
Marine Management Organisation 7 7 0
100.0%
Outline Planning 5 3 2
60.0%
Environmental Impact Assessment (Screening/Scoping) 3 3 0
100.0%
Adjacent authority consultation 2 2 0
100.0%
Reserved Matters 1 1 0
100.0%
Modify Planning Agreement 1 1 0
100.0%
Quarterly Trend
QuarterDecidedApprovedApproval rate
2023-Q3 220 200
90.9%
2023-Q4 228 208
91.2%
2024-Q1 222 199
89.6%
2024-Q2 281 248
88.3%
2024-Q3 293 260
88.7%
2024-Q4 268 228
85.1%
2025-Q1 247 222
89.9%
2025-Q2 207 182
87.9%
2025-Q3 249 213
85.5%
2025-Q4 270 246
91.1%
2026-Q1 245 209
85.3%
2026-Q2 19 16
84.2%
By Ward
WardTotalApprovedRefusedApproval rate
St Thomas 356 320 36
89.9%
Drayton & Farlington 353 307 46
87.0%
St Jude 330 290 40
87.9%
Charles Dickens 244 224 20
91.8%
Central Southsea 234 211 23
90.2%
Cosham 211 189 22
89.6%
Hilsea 200 184 16
92.0%
Milton 195 174 21
89.2%
Eastney & Craneswater 191 167 24
87.4%
Copnor 185 162 23
87.6%
Nelson 185 165 20
89.2%
Baffins 129 112 17
86.8%
Planning guides

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