Submission coverage
This page shows how much of the planning application volume is covered by the submission specification.
This means the specification supports application types that account for 98.5% of planning applications.
How this figure is calculated
538,064 of 546,058 applications
are covered by the submission specification.
Based on the 2024 planning application statistics currently available.
Application types
Application types covered and not covered by the submission specification
Coverage status
| Application type | Applications | Covered |
|---|---|---|
|
Householder planning application
(hh) |
136,464 | ✓ |
|
Full planning permission
(full) |
90,673 | ✓ |
|
PP stats: Tree works: Trees in conservation areas/subject to TPOs
|
78,778 | ✓ |
|
Approval of details reserved by condition
|
77,281 | ✓ |
|
LDC Proposed Use
|
34,425 | ✓ |
|
Non-material amendment (S96a)
|
20,488 | ✓ |
|
Removal or variation of a condition following grant of planning permission
(s73) |
19,399 | ✓ |
|
Listed building consent
(lbc) |
16,206 | ✓ |
|
Larger Home Extension
|
12,591 | ✓ |
|
Advertising
|
10,485 | ✓ |
|
LDC Existing Use
|
8,363 | ✓ |
|
Form: Householder Application for Planning Permission for works or extension to a dwelling and listed building consent
|
6,066 | ✓ |
|
Form: Application for planning permission and listed building consent for alterations, extension or demolition of a listed building
|
5,839 | ✓ |
|
Building for agricultural or forestry use
|
3,762 | ✓ |
|
Form: Householder application for planning permission for works or extension to a dwelling and for relevant demolition of an unlisted building in a conservation area
|
3,551 | ✓ |
|
Change of use from commercial buildings to dwellinghouses
|
3,285 | ✓ |
|
Form: Application for planning permission and consent to display advertisement(s)
(full, advertising) |
2,453 | ✓ |
|
Outline Planning Permission with Some Matters Reserved
|
2,124 | ✓ |
|
Reserved matters
|
1,968 | ✓ |
|
Form: Application for planning permission and for relevant demolition of an unlisted building in a conservation area
|
1,847 | ✓ |
|
Outline Planning Permission with All Matters Reserved
|
1,068 | ✓ |
|
Additional storeys
|
462 | ✓ |
|
Hedgerow removal notice
|
274 | ✓ |
|
Planning permission for relevant demolition in a conservation area
|
212 | ✓ |
|
Development relating to the onshore extraction of oil and gas
|
0 | ✓ |
|
LDC Proposed Work to a Listed Building
|
0 | ✓ |
|
Lawful development certificate
(ldc) |
*used for inheritance | ✓ |
|
Outline planning
(outline) |
*used for inheritance | ✓ |
|
Permission in principle
(pip) |
0 | ✓ |
|
Prior approval
|
*used for inheritance | ✓ |
| Application type | Applications | Covered |
|---|---|---|
|
Change of use from agricultural buildings to dwellinghouses
(cho-agri-to-dwh)
|
2,246 | |
|
Electronic communications network development
(pa-ecomms-network)
|
1,177 | |
|
Roof-mounted solar PV on non-domestic building
(pa-roof-solar-nondom)
|
1,171 | |
|
Demolition of building
(pa-demo-building)
|
1,015 | |
|
Private road for agricultural or forestry use
(pa-road-agri-forest)
|
549 | |
|
Change of use from agriculture to flexible commercial use
(cho-agri-to-flexcom)
|
503 | |
|
Change of use from commercial buildings to mixed use
(cho-commercial-to-mixed)
|
419 | |
|
Excavation or waste deposit for agriculture
(pa-excavate-agri)
|
190 | |
|
Collection facility for a shop
(pa-col-fac-shop)
|
135 | |
|
Change of use from sui generis uses to dwellinghouses
(cho-sui-to-dwh)
|
124 | |
|
New flats on detached blocks of flats
(pa-flats-de-blocks)
|
124 | |
|
Change of use from commercial buildings to state-funded school
(cho-comm-to-school)
|
88 | |
|
New flats on detached commercial buildings
(pa-flats-de-comm)
|
67 | |
|
New flats on terraced commercial buildings
(pa-flats-terr-comm)
|
58 | |
|
University building works
(pa-uni-building)
|
25 | |
|
Demolish and replace with dwellinghouses
(pa-demo-replace-dwh)
|
21 | |
|
Solar canopy on non-domestic parking
(pa-solar-nondom-park)
|
17 | |
|
Movable structure for historic attraction or listed hospitality use
(pa-movable-structure)
|
15 | |
|
Solar equipment on domestic premises
(pa-solar-eq-dom)
|
13 | |
|
New flats on detached dwellinghouses
(pa-flats-de-dwh)
|
10 | |
|
Temporary use for commercial film-making
(pa-tmp-use-comm-film)
|
9 | |
|
Accommodation on closed defence site
(pa-accom-defence)
|
6 | |
|
New flats on terraced dwellinghouses
(pa-flats-terr-dwh)
|
5 | |
|
Temporary school on vacant commercial land
(pa-tmp-school-vacant-comm)
|
4 | |
|
Stand-alone solar equipment on non-domestic premises
(pa-sa-solar-nondom)
|
2 | |
|
Stand-alone solar equipment on domestic premises
(pa-sa-solar-dom)
|
1 |
What is in scope
Not all planning application types are included in this phase of the submission specification.
You can view the full list of planning application types, including those in and out of scope, in the submission application types list.
Scoping criteria
The submission specification does not currently cover every planning application type. The following criteria were used to decide which application types are in scope for this phase.
- they had a positive number of applications in the 2024 statistics
- they are inherited by other application types and needed to support them (for example, prior approval)
- the 2024 volume is unknown but there is an available application form for the type
Application types with an explicit zero volume are out of scope unless they are inherited by other application types.
Notes
Combined applications
Some planning application forms allow more than one application type to be submitted together.
The submission specification defines each single application type separately, and it also supports approved combined applications through a controlled list.
For this coverage calculation, a combined application counts as covered when it is one of those approved combined applications and the underlying application types exist in the specification.
Combined applications that are not approved in that list are not counted as covered.
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