In the latest year the total number of local development decisions increased by 2.4% from 29,330 in 2012/13 to 30,030 in 2013/14. The average decision time for local developments (excluding legacy cases) has improved by almost 6 days to 10.6 weeks for the year 2013/14, from 11.4 weeks in the previous year. The percentage of local developments decided within 2 months has improved to 72.7% in 2013/14, compared to 69.4% in the previous year.
The total number of major development decisions increased by 29.8% from 238 in 2012/13 to 309 in 2013/14. The average decision time for major developments (excluding legacy cases) has improved by more than 12 days to 34.6 weeks for the year 2013/14, from 36.3 weeks in the previous year.