Numbers and outcomes of annex planning applications for past ten years
Request received 30 July 2026
I am requesting information relating to annexe accommodation over the last ten calendar years (2015 - 2025 inclusive):
1.Application volumes:
The number of planning applications received that relates to:
• Annexes
• Ancillary accommodation
• Incidental accommodation
• Dependent relative units
• (or any other equivalent terminology used by your authority)
Please provide totals per year.
2. Decision outcomes
For the same applications, please provide the number:
• Approved
• Refused
• Withdrawn
Broken down by year
3. Appeals
For the same period, please provide:
• How many were appealed
• Appeal outcomes (allowed / dismissed)
• Any recorded inspector reasoning if held in a summarised format)
If providing the full ten years dataset would exceed the appropriate limit, require disproportionate manual searching, or is otherwise not reasonably possible under EIR, please instead provide the same information the most recent five years only.
Responded 12 August 2026
Application Volumes and Decision Outcomes – Annex
| Calendar Year | Decision Declined | Pending | Permitted | Refused | Grand Total |
| 2015 | 9 | 2 | 11 | ||
| 2016 | 5 | 3 | 8 | ||
| 2017 | 9 | 1 | 10 | ||
| 2018 | 14 | 2 | 16 | ||
| 2019 | 9 | 9 | |||
| 2020 | 16 | 16 | |||
| 2021 | 1 | 22 | 3 | 26 | |
| 2022 | 15 | 4 | 19 | ||
| 2023 | 12 | 3 | 15 | ||
| 2024 | 7 | 1 | 8 | ||
| 2025 | 7 | 2 | 9 | ||
| 2026 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 | |
| Grand Total | 1 | 1 | 131 | 22 | 155 |
Appeal volumes and outcomes
| Calendar Year | ALLOW | DISMIS | Grand Total |
| 2015 | 1 | 11 | |
| 2016 | 8 | ||
| 2017 | 10 | ||
| 2018 | 16 | ||
| 2019 | 9 | ||
| 2020 | 16 | ||
| 2021 | 1 | 25 | |
| 2022 | 1 | 19 | |
| 2023 | 1 | 15 | |
| 2024 | 8 | ||
| 2025 | 9 | ||
| 2026 | 8 | ||
| Grand Total | 2 | 2 | 154 |
Appeal Decisions
Summaries are not held – link to Appeals Casework Portal where available
Reference: APP/V0510/D/15/3129408 (unavailable on Appeals Casework Portal)
Reference: APP/V0510/D/21/3282048