This Week in Astor // Planning week 13 Jul–19 Jul 2026
We reported on steady planning activity across London boroughs last week. The most recent fully settled figures — for 13–19 July — showed Westminster, Camden and Enfield leading filing volumes.
Planning figures cover 13 Jul–19 Jul 2026, in our records. Product updates cover 3 Aug–9 Aug 2026.
In short
In the week of 13–19 July, now fully reported, 1,551 planning applications were filed across 30 of the London boroughs we cover, with Westminster, Camden and Enfield most active. Of decided cases, 86% were approved. A nine-unit residential scheme was approved in Sutton. Astor shipped improvements to building visibility on watch pages and calibrated HMO supply estimates against council registers.
In the week of 13–19 July, now fully reported, 1,551 applications were received across the London boroughs we cover, with 30 of the 33 boroughs active. Of the 1,215 applications decided that week, 1,014 were approved, giving an approval rate of 86.2%. Westminster led filing volumes with 169 applications, followed by Camden (114), Enfield (96), Barnet (85) and Greenwich (82).
A four-storey extension with nine self-contained residential units was approved in Sutton on Park Road SM1 2AE (reference DM2025/00618). The scheme combines conversion of an existing Class E building with new accommodation in roof space, adding residential density to the borough's town centre area.
We improved how Astor surfaces building information on the watch page, so you now see material detail about the building itself alongside application history. We also locked stable identifiers for funder consents, allowing a lender verdict to persist and bind correctly against planning rules across updates. We calibrated the HMO capacity model against two councils' own HMO registers to strengthen the accuracy of supply estimates in Site Finder.
We added 664,433 historic planning records to our archive during the week just gone, expanding the searchable depth of case history in our covered boroughs.
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