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

7. Delegation Rates

Schemes of Delegation identify who will make the planning authority's decision on different types of planning application, whether it is an appointed officer or elected members. Delegation rates measure the proportion of planning decisions that are made by appointed officers. The delegation rate for all applications (including legacy applications) for quarter one was 95.8% and for quarter two was 96.6%.These were both slightly higher than the rates for the same quarter in the previous year (94.9% for Quarter 1 and 96.1% for Quarter 2).