LONDON REFUSALS
Planning Intelligence for London

Every Refusal.
Every Reason.
Every Borough.

We monitor all 33 London council planning portals every night. You get the refusals that matter — scored, summarised, and delivered before Monday morning.

For planning consultants, developers, and architects working across London.

From: London Refusals
Your Weekly Refusals Report — 10 Feb 2026
Monday, 7:00 AM · 47 new refusals this week
45 Wadham Gardens, Ealing High
Class MA — Office to 8 residential flats
Refused: Insufficient natural light to 3 units
9 Brentvale Avenue, Barnet Medium
Full — Conversion to 2 dwellings + rear extension
Refused: Scale and bulk out of character
12 Kentish Town Road, Camden Medium
Full — HMO conversion (7 beds)
Refused: Inadequate parking provision
+ 44 more refusals this week
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33
London Boroughs Covered
Nightly
Automated Scraping
100%
Residential Refusals
7AM
Monday Delivery

Built for London Planning Professionals

Whether you're advising, designing, or developing — refusal intelligence gives you the edge.

Planning Consultants

See exactly what's being refused across London and why. Spot patterns in LPA decision-making. Approach refused applicants who need expert help resubmitting.

  • Learn from others' refusal reasons
  • Win more approvals for your clients
  • Source new clients from refused applicants
Property Developers

Find fixable refusals before the competition. Understand which boroughs are refusing what — and avoid making the same mistakes on your own applications.

  • Identify motivated sellers
  • Spot fixable refusals early
  • De-risk your own submissions
Architects

Understand what local planning authorities are actually refusing and the specific design reasons. Use real refusal data to inform your proposals and pre-empt objections.

  • Design around known refusal patterns
  • Strengthen Design & Access statements
  • Reduce client risk at pre-app stage

How It Works

From 33 council portals to your inbox in three steps

1

We Scrape Every Night

Our pipeline hits all 33 London borough planning portals between midnight and 5am. Every new application, every decision, every refusal reason.

2

We Filter and Score

Telecoms masts, pavement signs, shopfront ads — gone. We isolate residential and commercial refusals and score them by opportunity type: Class MA, HMO, conversions, splits.

3

You Get the Report

Monday 7am: A curated email with the week's most relevant refusals. Address, description, decision, refusal reason, direct link to the council portal.

What's In Every Report

  • Full address and description
    Exactly what was applied for, in plain English
  • Decision and refusal reasons from the actual PDF
    We download the decision notice PDF from the council portal and extract the specific reasons — not just the word "refused"
  • Opportunity scoring
    Class MA, HMOs, conversions, and extensions scored by commercial potential
  • Direct portal links
    One click to the full application on the council's own portal
  • Borough and ward data
    Filter by the areas you actually work in
Platform View — Refusals Database Tier 2/3
Borough: All
Type: Residential
Score: 50+
ADDRESS BOROUGH REASON
45 Wadham Gdns Ealing Natural light
9 Brentvale Ave Barnet Bulk & scale
12 Kentish Town Rd Camden Parking
88 High St Lambeth Amenity space
31 Park Rd Greenwich Heritage impact
Showing 5 of 47 refusals this week

Why London Refusals?

There are other planning data tools. None of them do this.

1
Refusals only — not the full firehose

Other platforms give you every application. We only give you refusals — the ones that create opportunities. No noise.

2
We read the actual decision notice PDFs

Other services just tell you an application was "refused." We download and parse the decision notice PDF from each council to extract the specific reasons for refusal. Was it natural light? Parking? Heritage impact? Overdevelopment? That's the difference between a list of addresses and actionable intelligence.

3
All 33 boroughs, not a patchwork

We scrape every London borough — Idox, Northgate, Planning Index, all of them. No gaps. If it was refused in London, we have it.

4
Scored by commercial opportunity

Class MA conversions, HMOs, splits, extensions — all scored so the highest-value opportunities float to the top. Not alphabetical. Not by date. By potential.

5
Curated, not just aggregated

We strip out telecoms, shopfronts, tree works, pavement signs — the junk that makes council portals painful to search. You only see residential and commercial refusals that matter.

6
£79/month, not £500+

Enterprise planning tools charge hundreds per month. We charge £79 for the weekly digest. Full platform access from £149. One good lead pays for the year.

What One Refusal Is Worth

Planning Consultant
A new client.

A refused applicant needs help resubmitting. You contact them with specific knowledge of why they were refused and how to fix it.

Typical planning consultancy fee
£3,000 - £15,000
Property Developer
A motivated seller.

The owner already spent £15k on architect and planning fees. Their application failed. They want out. You buy at a discount, fix the refusal, resubmit.

Typical developer profit per deal
£20,000 - £80,000
Architect
A stronger application.

Your client wants to submit in Ealing. You check refusal data — 3 recent HMOs refused on natural light. You redesign before submitting. Approval first time.

Cost of a refused application
£8,000 - £25,000 wasted

Our service costs £79-299/month. The maths writes itself.

Pricing

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Every refusal, delivered Monday morning

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  • Weekly email digest every Monday 7AM
  • Choose up to 5 boroughs
  • Full refusal reasons extracted from PDFs
  • Scored by opportunity type
  • Direct portal links
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  • All 33 London boroughs
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  • Filter by borough, type, score
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