Small Decline In Planning Applications Granted

District-level planning authorities granted 91,700 decisions between April and June 2019 – a 3 per cent decline compared with the same quarter a year earlier. This equates to 88 per cent of the decisions, the same percentage as the corresponding quarter a year earlier, states a statistical release from the MHCLG. It found that 83 per cent of major and minor decisions were granted, which is the same as the quarter ending June 2018. In total, district-level authorities reported 103,900 decisions on planning applications in April to June 2019, which is 3 per cent less than the 106,900 decisions in the same quarter of the previous year. Read more on the Planning Portal.

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