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Marchfield District Council
England31% allow rate · 214 appeals decided · 5 years
Local plan policies · Allow rate when tested
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Each appeal decision is a ruling on which arguments held up, which policies carried weight, and why. Read across your authority, that's a live check on whether your interpretation of policy is holding. Three places that matter:
DECIDING PLANNING BALANCE & APPROACHES
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Checking how policy has been interpreted at a national scale gives you more confidence as you develop your planning responses. Check decided cases quickly when considering a proposal, writing your decision report or before a report goes to committee.
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Rapid review of local and national policy can help inform plan or policy reviews, other guidance documents or strategic planning. How do immediate or wider constraints unlock or hinder future approaches in your area? We can also run the analysis for you: bespoke findings on any combination of policies, for plan and policy work.
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Appeal Intelligence
The feedback loop plan-making never had.
Read one at a time, decision letters tell you the outcome of a single case. Read together, they show the pattern. MHCLG measures the quality of your decisions by the share overturned at appeal, and designations are back in use. The record can tell you where you stand at any time.
Where your authority stands.
Discover your authority's allow rate and timescales, by case type, alongside the national average.
Which policies hold up?
How does each of your local plan policies perform when tested at appeal? Are your interpretations holding? Our insight can contribute evidence for plan review, strategic allocation or supplementary documents. See the weakness before the examination asks, before costs are awarded, before timescales stretch.
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Are you looking at all the available data? How do NPPF paragraphs and local policies shape outcomes? Filter by procedure, case type or authority. The right context for your own decision making.
Built on 1.1M local plan policy citations and 2.9M points of reasoning, extracted from the appeal record.
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