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Planning and Environmental Appeals Division: annual review 2021 to 2022
Planning and Environmental Appeals Division's (DPEA) annual review of its performance for 2021 to 2022.
Appendix A
Statistics On Workload And Performance Against Targets
| Business year | In hand at start of the year | Received | Delegated appeals decided | Reports submitted | Withdrawn | In hand at end of the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 199 | 577 | 468 | 53 | 45 | 210 |
| 2020-21 | 191 | 437 | 365 | 38 | 28 | 197 |
| 2019-20 | 214 | 601 | 470 | 69 | 84 | 192 |
| 2018-19 | 217 | 710 | 586 | 40 | 87 | 214 |
| 2017-18 | 224 | 585 | 500 | 46 | 45 | 217 |
*Includes appeal and non-appeal cases
The total number of cases sisted/suspended as at 31 March 2022 was 45.
| Type Of Case | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | 2021-2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning permission appeals | 238 | 291 | 227 | 229 | 258 |
| Planning enforcement appeals | 76 | 89 | 94 | 37 | 76 |
| Conservation area consent, listed building consent and listed building enforcement appeals | 91 | 80 | 69 | 48 | 51 |
| Advertisement consent, discontinuance notice and advertisement enforcement appeals | 55 | 73 | 51 | 33 | 23 |
| High Hedge appeal | 22 | 33 | 17 | 8 | 20 |
| All other types of appeal | 37 | 46 | 45 | 46 | 66 |
| Subtotal: all types of appeals | 519 | 612 | 503 | 401 | 494 |
| Called-in application | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Called-in listed building consent - demolition | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Completion Notice | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Compulsory Purchase Order | 4 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 5 |
| Core Paths Plan | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Extinguishment of Public Right of Way | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Flood Prevention Scheme | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Listed Building Notified Application | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Local Development Plan | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 |
| Notification Direction | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Notified application | 0 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 8 |
| Power Station | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Public path creation/diversion/extinguishment order | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Purchase Notice | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Revocation order | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Roads order | 2 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Section 36 Wind Farm | 7 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 5 |
| Section 37 Transmission line | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Stopping up order | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Strategic Development Plan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Traffic Regulation Order | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Wayleave | 35 | 43 | 52 | 8 | 44 |
| Subtotal: all types of non-appeal cases | 65 | 98 | 98 | 37 | 83 |
| All Cases Received | 584 | 710 | 601 | 438 | 577 |
| Characteristics | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advertisement | 61 | 78 | 57 | 33 | 24 |
| Agricultural | 12 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 7 |
| Animal (cattery, kennel, stable etc.) | 6 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| Building Alterations (householder) | 59 | 94 | 86 | 72 | 72 |
| Building Alterations (non-householder) | 49 | 28 | 20 | 12 | 20 |
| Business | 15 | 37 | 28 | 22 | 9 |
| Car park | 11 | 24 | 23 | 12 | 17 |
| Caravan and Campsites | 10 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 13 |
| Cemetery/Religious Building | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Chimney/Flue | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Community Asset Transfer | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Compulsory Purchase Order | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 5 |
| Demolition | 21 | 14 | 15 | 12 | 13 |
| Designation of Building/Monument | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Development Plan (Local) | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Development Plan (Strategic) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dock/Harbour | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Environmental Appeal | 7 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| Fencing/Wall | 21 | 29 | 30 | 21 | 31 |
| Fish Farm | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 |
| Flood Prevention Scheme | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Hazardous Substance | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Hedge | 22 | 32 | 17 | 8 | 20 |
| Holiday/Leisure | 6 | 18 | 19 | 10 | 22 |
| Hospital/Medical Centre | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Hot Food Takeaway | 10 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 9 |
| Hotels | 5 | 25 | 46 | 20 | 23 |
| House in Multiple Occupation | 4 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 4 |
| Housing (10 or more houses) | 44 | 59 | 55 | 50 | 54 |
| Housing (more than one house) | 28 | 21 | 22 | 22 | 23 |
| Housing (single dwelling) | 54 | 58 | 46 | 47 | 43 |
| Hydro/Solar Power | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Industrial | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Landscaping | 22 | 37 | 37 | 15 | 37 |
| Leisure Facility/Ground | 2 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 10 |
| Meteorological/Anemometrical Mast | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mineral Extraction | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Nursing/Care/Retirement Home | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Other | 29 | 23 | 5 | 4 | 22 |
| Path | 5 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 8 |
| Petrol Station | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Power Station/Energy from Waste | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Recycling | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Restaurant/Cafe/Licensed Premises | 5 | 16 | 7 | 13 | 9 |
| Retail (food) | 3 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 6 |
| Retail (non-food) | 4 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 2 |
| Road/Bridge | 11 | 43 | 23 | 14 | 9 |
| Scheduled Monument | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| School/Educational | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| Shed/Garage | 20 | 26 | 20 | 24 | 27 |
| Short stay accommodation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Storage (non-warehousing) | 13 | 8 | 19 | 12 | 10 |
| Substation/Transmission Line/Pipeline | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Telecommunication | 6 | 26 | 1 | 15 | 13 |
| Traffic Regulation Order | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Transport | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Travelling Persons Site | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Tree | 8 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 22 |
| Warehouse/Distribution | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Waste Disposal | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Water/Sewage | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Wayleave | 35 | 43 | 51 | 8 | 44 |
| Wind Farm (offshore) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wind Farm (two or more turbines) | 21 | 17 | 12 | 23 | 24 |
| Wind turbine (single) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Windows - Timber | 7 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| Windows - UPVC | 25 | 26 | 21 | 6 | 12 |
| Number decided | Considered by oral process | Considered by site visit/review of written submissions | All cases allowed | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Allowed | Percentage | Total | Allowed | Percentage | Allowed | Percentage | ||
| Delegate appeals | |||||||||
| Planning permission | 172 | 3 | 1 | 33% | 169 | 93 | 55% | 94 | 55% |
| Planning enforcement | 58 | 0 | - | - | 58 | 12 | 21% | 12 | 21% |
| Conservation area consent, listed building consent and listed building enforcement | 47 | 0 | - | - | 47 | 16 | 34% | 16 | 34% |
| Advertisement consent, discontinuance notice and advertisement enforcement | 27 | 0 | - | - | 27 | 16 | 59% | 16 | 59% |
| High hedge | 11 | 0 | - | - | 11 | 7 | 64% | 7 | 64% |
| All others | 52 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 51 | 19 | 37% | 19 | 37% |
| All Delegated Appeals | 367 | 4 | 1 | 25% | 363 | 163 | 45% | 164 | 45% |
| Non-delegated Appeals | 7 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 6 | 2 | 33% | 3 | 43% |
| All Appeals | 374* | 5 | 2 | 40% | 369 | 165 | 45% | 167 | 45% |
*In addition a further 102 appeals were turned away as we had no powers to determine them
| Case types | Number decided | Considered by oral process | Considered by site visit/review of written submissions | All cases allowed | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Allowed | Percentage | Total | Allowed | Percentage | Allowed | Percentage | ||
| Called-in application | 2 | 0 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 100% | 2 | 100% |
| Completion Notice | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0% |
| Compulsory Purchase Order | 6 | 5 | 5 | 100% | 1 | 1 | 100% | 6 | 100% |
| Extinguishment of Public Right of Way | 2 | 2 | 2 | 100% | 0 | - | - | 2 | 100% |
| Flood Prevention Scheme | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0 | - | - | 1 | 100% |
| Listed Building Notified Application | 1 | 0 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 100% | 1 | 100% |
| Notified application | 3 | 0 | - | - | 3 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
| Power Station | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0 | - | - | 1 | 100% |
| Purchase Notice | 1 | 0 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
| Roads order | 4 | 4 | 4 | 100% | 0 | - | - | 4 | 100% |
| Section 36 Wind Farm | 4 | 4 | 3 | 75% | 0 | - | - | 3 | 75% |
| Traffic Regulation Order | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0 | - | - | 1 | 100% |
| Wayleave | 3 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 2 | 2 | 100% | 3 | 100% |
| Total: All Non-appeal Cases | 30 | 20 | 18 | 90% | 10 | 6 | 60% | 24 | 80% |
| Planning authority | Appeals decided | Appeals allowed | Success rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen City Council | 19 | 10 | 53% |
| Aberdeenshire Council | 16 | 9 | 56% |
| Angus Council | 5 | 1 | 20% |
| Argyll and Bute Council | 7 | 6 | 86% |
| Cairngorms National Park Authority | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| City of Edinburgh Council | 72 | 31 | 43% |
| Clackmannanshire Council | 3 | 2 | 67% |
| Dumfries and Galloway Council | 10 | 5 | 50% |
| Dundee City Council | 13 | 8 | 62% |
| East Ayrshire Council | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| East Dunbartonshire Council | 6 | 4 | 67% |
| East Lothian Council | 11 | 2 | 18% |
| East Renfrewshire Council | 4 | 2 | 50% |
| Falkirk Council | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| Fife Council | 26 | 11 | 42% |
| Glasgow City Council | 36 | 10 | 28% |
| Highland Council | 28 | 17 | 61% |
| Historic Environment Scotland | 6 | 5 | 83% |
| Inverclyde Council | 7 | 4 | 57% |
| Midlothian Council | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Moray Council | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| North Ayrshire Council | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| North Lanarkshire Council | 11 | 2 | 18% |
| Orkney Islands Council | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| Perth and Kinross Council | 12 | 6 | 50% |
| Renfrewshire Council | 13 | 7 | 54% |
| Scottish Borders Council | 7 | 1 | 14% |
| Scottish Forestry | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| Shetland Islands Council | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| South Ayrshire Council | 8 | 5 | 63% |
| South Lanarkshire Council | 6 | 3 | 50% |
| Stirling Council | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| West Dunbartonshire Council | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| West Lothian Council | 12 | 6 | 50% |
| Total | 367 | 164 | 45% |
Note: if an authority is not listed in table 5 it means no delegated decisions have been issued for sites within said authority's area within the period.
| Development plans | Number of reporters | Weeks to complete |
|---|---|---|
| Proposed East Renfrewshire Local Development Plan 2 | 4 | 42 |
| North Lanarkshire Local Development Plan - Modified Proposed Plan | 3 | 35 |
| South Ayrshire Local Development Plan | 3 | 46 |
| Development plans | Received | Report date |
|---|---|---|
| Argyll & Bute Proposed Local Development Plan | 25/01/2022 | |
| Proposed Aberdeen Local Development Plan 2020 | 22/07/2021 | |
| East Dunbartonshire Proposed Local Development Plan | 15/06/2021 | |
| Proposed Aberdeenshire Local Development Plan 2020 | 12/03/2021 | 22/06/2022 |
| Number of claims | Successful claims | |
|---|---|---|
| By a main contact against: | ||
| An authority | 52 | 11 |
| By another party against: | ||
| An authority | 1 | 0 |
| Procedure | Target number of weeks to determine | Number of appeals | Performance against target | Average weeks taken to determine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Further Procedure | 8 | 0 | - | - |
| Site Inspection | 12 | 206 | 81% | 12.2 |
| Further Written Submission | 20 | 161 | 66% | 21.6 |
| Hearing | 26 | 3 | 33% | 26.1 |
| Inquiry | 32 | 1 | 0% | 35.4 |
Contact
Email: dpea@gov.scot