Huntingdonshire approves 92% of planning applications. That is well above the national rate of 88%.
Huntingdonshire District Council received 1,018 planning applications in 2025, up from 766 the year before. Of the applications decided across 2024 and 2025, the council approved 92.4%, noticeably above the 87.6% national rate. It refuses only about 1 in 13 applications, compared with the national 1 in 8. No single project category runs out of step with the national norm.
The year in one line
Huntingdonshire approved 92.4% of the applications it decided in 2024-2025, well above the 87.6% national rate, refusing only 1 in 13 compared with the national 1 in 8. No category stands out from the norm.
What Huntingdon Is Building
A standard mix, led by extensions.
Home extensions were the most common project submitted to Huntingdonshire in 2025, at 19.1% of all applications, well below the 29.1% national share. Demolition followed at 6.5% and retrospective applications at 3.8%. No single category runs out of step with the national norm. This is a conventional application mix, with no unusual concentration in any one type of building work.
Applications submitted to Huntingdonshire in 2025, by project type (2024-2025 pooled counts).
No outliers
No robust category in Huntingdon clears the bar to count as a stand-out against the national average. The mix sits close to the national pattern across the board, with extensions notably lower than average.
The council verdict
An easy yes: 92% approved.
The council approved 92.4% of the applications it decided across 2024 and 2025, well above the 87.6% national rate. It refused 7.6%, about 1 in 13, compared with the national 1 in 8. Of the 1,630 decided applications, 1,506 were approved, 124 refused, and 95 withdrawn.
About 1 in 13 Huntingdon applications was turned down.
of applications approved by Huntingdonshire, against the 87.6% national rate. Only 1 in 13 applications is refused, making this one of the more permissive councils in England.
Huntingdon vs The National Norm
A permissive council with a conventional mix.
Set Huntingdon's application mix against the national average and the story is its closeness to the norm, led from a position of high approval. Home extensions sit at 19.1% against 29.1% nationally, the widest gap in the mix. Demolition is also lower. No robust category runs above the national share, and the retrospective rate, at 3.8%, matches the national 3.7% almost exactly.
Of applications decided by Huntingdonshire were approved. That is well above the 87.6% national rate, with only 1 in 13 refused compared to the national 1 in 8.
Each bar is Huntingdon's share of applications; the marker is the national share. Home extensions show the widest gap below the norm.
Meanwhile, the market
Prices rose alongside the building work.
Decisions may take longer here, but values held their direction: the average Huntingdon home sold for more than the year before.
Huntingdon's planning data is straightforwardly positive for applicants. The council approves 92% of what it decides, well above the national 88%, and refuses only 1 in 13 compared with the national 1 in 8. The project mix is conventional, with no category running particularly hot or cold. Anyone planning building work in Huntingdonshire is more likely to hear yes than in most of the country.
Where the numbers come from
Planning Data
Applications submitted to Huntingdonshire District Council in 2025, classified from each application's published description. Rates and shares are computed over the pooled 2024-2025 decided applications for statistical stability.
Decision Rates
Approval rate is approvals as a share of approvals plus refusals. The national benchmarks are computed the same way across all decided applications in England and Wales.
Sales Data
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data for the Huntingdon post town, the latest full year's completions, with growth measured against the previous year.
The Real Applications
Open the planning applications behind the numbers.
These are real applications submitted in the Huntingdonshire area, from the extensions that lead the town's project mix to retrospective consents and conversions. Open any one to see its full record.
24 Christie Drive PE29 6JD
A single-storey rear extension, the most common project type submitted in the Huntingdonshire area, was approved.
See this property's full record181 Sapley Road, Hartford PE29 1YT
A single-storey rear extension with new door and window openings and replacement doors and windows was granted.
See this property's full record37 Doherty Road, Godmanchester PE29 2PB
A proposed garage conversion was turned down, one of the roughly 1 in 13 applications the council refused.
See this property's full record1 High Street, Catworth PE28 0PF
Listed-building consent was given for a complete re-roofing, internal re-configuration and a partial garage conversion, the heritage work the area does rarely.
See this property's full record50 High Street, Brampton PE28 4TH
A plan to convert an outbuilding into a dwelling was refused.
See this property's full recordWindsong Mill Road, Wistow PE28 2QQ
A loft conversion with rooflights and a rear-facing second-floor window was approved.
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