Appeal intelligence

Refused planning permission? Check your odds before you spend thousands.

You can challenge a refusal — it's called an appeal, it's decided by a government inspector, not the council, and roughly 3 in 10 succeed nationally. But an appeal typically costs £3,000+ in professional fees and takes months. For £29, see the real track record for your council and your kind of project first — including past refusals that won on appeal.

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Example — the kind of thing your report tells you "Refusals by this case officer have been overturned on appeal 4 times out of 11." · "In this council, 3 of the last 10 appeals about extensions were allowed." · "A rear extension two streets away was refused for the same reason as yours — and won on appeal in May 2024. Here's the case number."
Illustration, not real data — your report is built from your council's actual record, and where we hold little data on your case it says so rather than guessing.

Your officer's record

The person who refused you has refused others. We show how often those refusals were later overturned by the independent inspector.

Cases like yours

Other refusals in your council — how many owners appealed, and how many of them won.

Who decides appeals here

Appeals are decided by government inspectors, not the council. We show how the inspectors covering your area have been deciding.

Wins you can point to

Past appeals that succeeded on cases like yours, with official case numbers — the strongest thing you (or your architect) can put in an appeal.