Planning Authority Performance Statistics 2013/14

This report presents statistics on planning decision-making and timescales across the years 2012/13 and 2013/14. It is based on quarterly data collected by the Scottish Government from Local and Planning Authorities as part of the Planning Performance Framework (introduced in 2012). Longer term trends are also presented where data for earlier years is available in a comparable format.


2. Processing Agreements

Some local authorities use processing agreements (Annual, 2013/14 - Table 1), 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. For the year 2013/14 there were 125 applications that were subject to a processing agreement and 82.4% of these were processed within agreed timescales. Of these 61 were for major developments with 91.8% processed within agreed timescales. For the previous year the figures were a total of 40 applications were subject to a processing agreement, with 81.8% within agreed timescales.

See Annex 14.1 for details by planning authority for 2013/14.

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