Planning performance statistics: quarterly reports - April to September 2019-2020
Summary statistics on planning decision-making and timescales for April to September 2019.
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Applications for Local Developments (excludes legacy cases)
There were 13,871 decisions on local developments in the first six months of 2019/20, 565 fewer than the same period in the previous year. The average decision time for the 12,890 of these which were not subject to processing agreements was 9.0 weeks, slightly slower than the corresponding time of 8.9 weeks for the first six months of 2018/19.
Chart 1: Applications for Local Developments (excluding legacy cases)
In quarter one of 2019/20 there were also 494 local development applications with processing agreements, 81.4% (402) met agreed timescales that had been set between developers and local authorities. In quarter two there were 487, 78.6% (383) meeting the agreed timescales.
There was also one Local Development pre 3rd August 2009 legacy case concluded. Further details about legacy cases can be seen in Section 10.
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