Candidate source map
Planning throughput
Local planning portals, Planning Inspectorate decisions, council committee papers, published planning performance tables.
monitoring
Coming soon: Growth Index
No rankings until the source trail can carry the weight.
The Growth Index should eventually show which places enable homes, energy, enterprise, and infrastructure. Right now it is a source-pass project, not a council scoreboard.
Source pass v1
The useful first action is evidence collection.
A credible index starts with source families, refresh paths, caveats, and public output shapes. The league table comes later, after review.
First receipt live
Housing delivery
ONS housing affordability data, local plans, completions data, housing delivery test material, council pipeline documents.
Needs source owner
Enterprise signal
ONS business demography, Companies House formations, commercial vacancy data, local economic dashboards.
Research mission
Energy and grid
Grid connection queue publications, energy project trackers, local infrastructure plans, developer testimony.
Method design
Infrastructure execution
Project business cases, local transport updates, NAO-style reports, council capital programme papers, delivery milestones.
Scoring stack
Prototype method, not official ranking
Five inputs, public caveats.
35%
Input 01
Planning throughput
Approvals, average time to decision, appeals, stalled major applications.
25%
Input 02
Housing delivery
Delivery against targets, pipeline permits, completions, affordability signal.
20%
Input 03
Energy and grid
Connection queues, capacity additions, major project delays.
10%
Input 04
Enterprise signal
Business formation, survival rates, commercial build permits.
10%
Input 05
Infrastructure execution
Project start/finish deltas, overrun patterns, delivery scorecards.
What the product should become
A score should become pressure, not a PDF.
The Growth Index only matters if it gives residents, journalists, builders, councillors, and organisers something they can use immediately.
Council lookup tool
Growth heroes and blockers
Top movers share cards
Embargoed press pack
Ground-truth submission route
Ground truth route
Data needs witnesses.
Ground-truth submissions should include a place, claim, source link, local contact if safe, and a short explanation of why the example matters.
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No fake search box. No pretend leaderboard.
When this page ranks places, it should show a source trail a sceptic can inspect. Until then, the work is method, data collection, and review.