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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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