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The Court Report

Every court, every decision, and what it means.

The Court Report · August 2026

UK padel has doubled, but there's subtlety beneath it.

Approvals went from 312 to 649 and submissions from 629 to 1,150. The approval rate, the decision time and the average scheme size did not budge. Planning is not the bottleneck.

31 August 2026 · 8 min read
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649 approvals, twelve months to August
312 last year 337 added
Each mark = 10 approvals
The Court Report · July 2026

Applications fell by a third in July. Approvals didn't.

For the first time since 2024, councils cleared more padel schemes than were submitted. Whether that is a summer lull or the market turning depends on what August does.

1 August 2026 · 5 min read
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