Planning Performance Statistics 2020/21: Annual

Summary statistics on planning application decision-making timescales for 2020/21 with historic data going back to 2012/13. It is based on data collected by the Scottish Government from Local and Planning Authorities as part of the Planning Performance Framework (introduced in 2012).


7. Approval Rates

The overall rate of approvals[3] was 94.5%, the highest approval rate since the start of this data collection in 2012/13.

Table 4: Percentage of all applications approved in period
2020/21 2019/20 2018/19 2017/18 2016/17 2015/16 2014/15 2013/14 2012/13
94.5% 94.2% 93.7% 93.7% 94.2% 93.8% 93.9% 94.1% 92.8%

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