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Reasons that hold.
Search UK appeal decisions. See how reasons like yours have fared, which policies carry weight with inspectors, and where your authority stands. Before someone else does.
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Marchfield District Council
England31% allow rate · 214 appeals decided · 5 years
Local plan policies · Allow rate when engaged
Cases citing this policy
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How you'd use it
Each decision is a ruling on whether a refusal held and whether policy is doing its job. Three places that matters:
Writing the report
Test reasons before they're tested.
Check how similar reasons for refusal have fared at appeal: which were substantiated, which were not, and what the inspector said. Before the report goes to committee.
When the appeal lands
Defend from decided cases.
Build the statement on decisions where the same ground held. Draw on the inspector's reasoning, in their words, traced to the decision letter.
At plan review
Know which policies carry weight.
See how each local plan policy fares when tested at appeal. Evidence for the policies doing their job, and early warning for the ones that aren't.
In between, case tracking follows pending appeals against your authority through to the decision. When experienced officers move on, the record stays.
What you get, and what you don't.
We're not planning consultants. We don't write your statement, weigh your case, or give advice. We put the evidence in front of you: the cases, the inspector's reasoning, and patterns across the whole dataset that no manual search would surface. You draw the conclusions. The report is yours.
Appeal Intelligence
The feedback loop plan-making never had.
One case tells you what happened. The whole record tells you how your reasons and your policies are doing. MHCLG publishes authority performance quarterly, and the quality measure is the share of decisions allowed at appeal.
Where your authority stands.
Your authority's allow rate and timescales, by case type, with the England average alongside.
Which policies hold up?
How each of your local plan policies fares when engaged at appeal. Evidence for plan review, before the examination asks.
Read the national picture.
How NPPF paragraphs fare nationally, and how procedure and case type shape outcomes. Context for your own record.
Built on 1.1M local plan policy citations and 2.9M points of inspector reasoning identified across English decisions. The appeals database covers all four UK jurisdictions.
Two ways to get there
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Use the insights.
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A read on your record.
One-off, monthly or quarterly findings on the appeals decided in your area: how reasons fared, which policies were engaged, what changed. Ready for service reviews and committee reporting. You set the questions. You get the findings and the working, the judgement stays yours, and you'll know the cost before anything starts.
Reasons that hold.
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