Planning performance statistics: 2018-2019 midyear
Latest statistics on planning decision-making and timescales for April to September 2018 (quarters one and two), as well as historic data going back to quarter one of 2014-2015.
4. Processing Agreements
Some local authorities use processing agreements where the developer and the local authority agree on timescales for decisions. When an application is subject to a processing agreement it is removed from average decision time calculations and reported separately (Midyear, 2018/19 – Table 1).
Table 1: Processing Agreements, 2018/19, Quarter 1 and 2
| Quarter 1 |
Quarter 2 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category of development |
Number of Decisions |
% Within Agreed Timescales |
Number of Decisions |
% Within Agreed Timescales |
| Major Applications |
26 |
61.5% |
35 |
77.1% |
| Local Applications |
537 |
72.6% |
514 |
77.0% |
| EIA Developments |
3 |
66.7% |
3 |
66.7% |
| Other Consents |
108 |
71.3% |
130 |
56.9% |
| Total |
674 |
72.0% |
682 |
73.2% |
In the first six months of 2018/19 there were 1,356 applications decided that had processing agreements, 353 (35%) more than the same period in the previous year.
In quarter one 7.2% of all applications (674 of 9,406) had processing agreements, in quarter two this increased to 7.5% (682 of 9,099) of all applications having a processing agreement.
Chart 29: Proportion of applications with Processing Agreements
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