Planning performance statistics: quarterly reports - April to September 2019-2020

5. Legal Agreements

The timescales for applications with legal agreements are dependent on the nature of the application, the particular complexities involved and the willingness of both the applicant and the planning authority to progress the matter at pace.

5.1 Local developments with Legal Agreements

In the first six months of 2019/20 there were 235 applications for local developments where planning authorities had planning/legal agreements in place, 95 more than in the same period in the previous year. The average time taken to make decisions on these applications was 26.0 weeks, over six weeks quicker than the 32.2 weeks for the same period in 2018/19.

Chart 20: Local developments with Legal Agreements

5.2 Major developments with Legal Agreements

In the first six months of 2019/20 there were 45 applications for major developments decided where planning authorities had planning/legal agreements in place, five more than in the same period in the previous year. The average time taken to make decisions on these applications was 43.4 weeks, ten weeks quicker than the 53.4 weeks for the same period in 2018/19.

Chart 21: Major developments with Legal Agreements