And now the good news – The Planning Portal by numbers

35% of all applications submitted in England and Wales passed through the Portal (still increasing despite the downturn)

as did 42% of Appeals

In 2008/09 we processed more than 150,000 applications.

We had 6.1 Million visits from an average of 326,000 monthly visitors.

and spread the good word to more than 48,000 subscribers to our weekly newsletter.