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Planning appeal contracts

UK public sector · 98 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
98
Last 12 months
Median contract
£81k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£58.1m
90 of 91 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
66
Suppliers
76

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most planning appeal contracts took 28% of them (27 of 98).
  • The median contract, £81k, is close to the median across consulting & accountancy contracts (£80k).
  • Homes England awarded 13% of the planning appeal contracts (13 of 98).

Who buys planning appeal

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Homes England13 contracts
  2. 2Westminster City Council6 contracts
  3. 3Hertfordshire County Council4 contracts
  4. 4Prosper Learning Trust4 contracts
  5. 5North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts
  6. 6North London Waste Authority2 contracts
  7. 7East Lindsey District Council2 contracts
  8. 8Bath & North East Somerset Council2 contracts
  9. 9Clarion Housing Group2 contracts
  10. 10City of London Corporation2 contracts

Top planning appeal contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1WSP7 contracts
  2. 2Savills6 contracts
  3. 3AtkinsRéalis5 contracts
  4. 4Turley Associates Ltd5 contracts
  5. 5Pegasus Planning Group Ltd5 contracts
  6. 6Arup4 contracts
  7. 7Vincent and Gorbing Ltd3 contracts
  8. 8Jacobs2 contracts
  9. 9CampbellReith2 contracts
  10. 10Pell Frischmann2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

30Q4 2025*19Q1 202632Q2 202617Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 92 · Wales 4 · Northern Ireland 1 · Scotland 1

London18South West14East of England10North West9North East6South East6Yorkshire and The Humber5East Midlands4Wales4West Midlands1Northern Ireland1UK-wide or not stated20

What is included

Town planning consultancy for the buyer's own land and development: planning strategy and advice, pre-application work, preparing and managing applications, appeals and local plan representations, including DCO consenting for nationally significant infrastructure and expert planning advice to public bodies and decision makers.

  • Planning application preparation and submission
  • Pre-application and outline permission support
  • Planning performance agreement management
  • Planning appeal evidence and support
  • Local plan representations and site statements
  • Expert planning advice to public bodies
  • Planning consultant lots in consultancy frameworks
  • DCO and NSIP consenting strategy, application and examination support
  • Independent planning review of NSIP applications and processes for decision bodies

What is not included

  • Planning inquiry advocacy and consenting legal advice (see Legal)
  • Outsourced processing of others' applications for a planning authority (see Development management support)
  • Land referencing and compulsory purchase (see Land referencing, compulsory purchase and land assembly advice)
  • Transport assessments for applications (see Transport planning, strategy and travel planning)
  • Heritage statements (see Heritage consultancy)
  • Temporary planning officers (see Recruitment & HR)

Often bought by the same buyers