London Borough of Haringey

How Haringey decides on small housing schemes

Every decision on sites of nine units or fewer, coded from the council's own register and refreshed each quarter. What gets built, what gets approved, and what trips applications up.

Last updated April 2026 495 applications tracked Window: Jan 2023 to Mar 2026 7 areas, 7 scheme types
Applications logged
495
Full, householder and minor resi since Jan 2023
Decided so far
415
288 approved, 127 refused, 23 withdrawn
Approval rate
69%
Roughly two in three decided applications
Typical time to decide
9 weeks
Median determination time across all small sites

Haringey, area by area

Colour shows how often applications get approved. Numbers show how many were decided. Hover or tap an area for detail.

Muswell Hill & Fortis Green 38 Highgate & Crouch End 74 Hornsey & Harringay 77 Wood Green & Bounds Green 94 Tottenham Central & South 74 North Tottenham 50 Tottenham Hale 8 Approval rate 50% 78%
Spotlight

Muswell Hill & Fortis Green

Decisions
38
Approved
29
Refused
9
Approval rate
76%
Hover or tap any tile to see that area’s detail.
Tile positions are schematic, not to geographic scale. Each hex represents one of Haringey’s sub-areas as defined in the council’s own planning framework.

Highgate & Crouch End approves 78% of applications. Tottenham Hale, closer to 50%. Same borough, same policy, 28 percentage points of difference.

Which kinds of schemes get approved?

Bar length shows how many of each type were decided. The split shows the share approved versus refused. Conversion is by far the most common route in Haringey, but it's extension that sees the highest approval rate.

Approved Refused Bar length = sample size (max n=245)
Conversion
63%n=245
Demolish & rebuild
74%n=47
Extension
89%n=28
Infill
85%n=20
Backland
79%n=19
Mid-terrace
68%n=19
End-of-terrace
87%n=15
Scheme types with fewer than 10 decisions in the window are not shown here.
Conversion, dividing one home into flats
Demolish & rebuild, existing building replaced with new homes
Extension, rear, side or upward additions creating a new unit
Infill, new build on small pockets of land
Backland, new build on rear gardens or courtyard land
Mid-terrace, insertion into the middle of a terrace
End-of-terrace, new infill at the end of a terraced row

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Data sources & method

Applications. Sourced from the Greater London Authority (GLA) Planning Datahub and Haringey Council’s online planning register. Covers full planning, householder, and minor residential applications of nine units or fewer decided in the window shown above.

Decisions and timing. Outcomes and determination times are taken from the council’s published decision notices.

Refusal reasons. Extracted from refused decision notices that were publicly available. Not every refusal has a readable notice, so totals count all refusals but the reason breakdown covers only those we could read.

Scheme classification. Site types (conversion, demolish & rebuild, extension, and so on) are coded from application descriptions and drawings. Areas are mapped from postcodes and ward names using the council’s own sub-area definitions.

Update frequency. Refreshed quarterly. Next refresh: July 2026.

Nothing here is planning advice. Outcomes are historical and do not predict individual cases. Approval rates vary with site specifics, policy context, and case officer. For a read on a particular site, request a Site Assessment. See our Terms of Use for full details on how this data is compiled and the limits of its use.