Local Plan tracker

Which stage every authority's plan has reached, what happens next and when, how old the adopted plan is, and when the next plan is due.

Authority	System & stage	Next milestone	Adopted plan	Review / next plan due	5YHLS

Dates in red fall within the next 31 days. Each next date is labelled: council from the council's own timetable, statutory a national deadline, estimated a forecast.

Legacy or new system?

Plans submitted by 31 December 2026 finish under the legacy rules. Everything else follows the new 30-month process. How the two compare

Review / next plan due

Five years after adoption. After that date an unreviewed plan's housing requirement no longer sets the land supply target. Why it matters

Where the dates come from

Councils' local plan timetables, which they must now publish as data, read daily from the government's Planning Data platform. Where a timetable is missing or out of date we check the council's website and say so. About the data