According to research based on road closure applications, London tops the party table while Glasgow is not planning any
More than 5,500 royal wedding street parties are expected to be held across Britain, according to statistics for road closure requests collected by the Local Government Association (LGA).
But while people in the south appear to be pulling out all the stops, some areas further north are not so enthusiastic, with not one application made in Glasgow. London tops the table for the number of parties, with more than 800 applications, including one for Downing Street. With 85 events approved for the day, Richmond upon Thames is the area that is having the most street parties in the capital.
Using a rough measure of applications compared to populations, figures show London, Edinburgh and Cardiff all have higher than average numbers of street parties planned.
Other places expected to see a high number of street parties are Hertfordshire with 298, Surrey with 205 and Kent with 182.
Brighton is having 16 parties and Southampton 17. Bristol is planning 54, one for every 8,000 residents.
With 52 applications, Cardiff has had more than twice as many applications per person compared with nearby Swansea, while Edinburgh is having a party for every 21,000 residents.
Across the north, the number of parties is lower than for many cities in the south.
In Glasgow not a single application has been made from the 588,500 people living in the city, although the council said just because it is not aware of any party plans it does not mean none are being held.
Further south, while Newcastle will be throwing 32 parties – one for roughly every 8,800 residents – Sunderland will be having only four, just one for every 70,000 residents.
The figures were compiled from LGA data, and population figures from the Office for National Statistics.
However, they are not definitive, as around 120 of the 375 councils in England and Wales did not respond to the LGA survey.
Based on England and Wales, with a population of around 55 million and roughly 5,500 street parties planned, this gives a national average of around one street party for every 10,000 of the Queen's subjects.