London's planning decisions get less local coverage than almost anything else that changes a street. Press Gazette's own study found no outlet covering all 32 boroughs at any depth, so the first most people hear about a development is when the scaffolding goes up — by which point the moment to say anything has passed.
This page reads the Greater London Authority's Planning London Datahub, which collects what all 33 planning authorities publish, and puts the part with a deadline first: what is being applied for around your postcode, and which of it is still inside its comment period.
What commenting actually does
A comment is not a vote and the council does not count them up. Officers weigh what the law calls material considerations, and the Planning Portal's own list of those is: overlooking and loss of privacy, loss of light or overshadowing, parking, highway safety, traffic, noise, the effect on a listed building or a conservation area, layout and density, design, appearance and materials, government policy, disabled people's access, what the local plan proposes, previous decisions, and nature conservation. Two of the things people write in most often are explicitly not material and cannot be taken into account: losing your view, and what a development might do to what your home is worth. A short comment that names a material consideration and says how it affects you carries more than a long one that does not.
The consultation period is normally at least 21 days from the council's notice, or 14 days where the notice went into a newspaper, and it is extended by a day for each bank holiday that falls inside it. After it closes a council may still take a late comment into account, but it has no obligation to — which is why the deadline on this page is a real one. Comments go to the council, through its own website, and they go on the public file: write as if it will be read, because it will.
You do not have to live next door, and you do not have to object. Councils hear from people who object far more often than from people who support something, which is worth knowing if you think a proposal is good.
This page reads the Greater London Authority’s Planning London Datahub, which collects what the councils publish. It is not the register itself: the council’s own record is authoritative for status, documents, deadlines and how to comment.
Councils feed the datahub at their own pace and some feeds stall for months, so an application can be live on a council’s register and absent here. A quiet list is never proof that nothing is planned.
Dates come from the councils’ own records, typos included. Where a date was obviously wrong — a consultation closing in the year 3034 — it has been left out rather than shown.