Planning performance statistics: annual and quarterly reports, 2016-2017

Statistics on planning decision-making and timescales between the periods 2012 to 2013 and 2016 to 2017.


9. Approval Rates

The overall rate of approvals for all types of application was 94.2% for the year 2016/17. This is the highest approval rate over the past seven years. Annual, 2016/17: Table 33)

Table 6: Percentage of all applications approved in period

2016/17 2015/16 2014/15 2013/14 2012/13 2011/12 2010/11
94.2% 93.8% 93.9% 94.1% 92.8% 92.2% 92.9%

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