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2009 Planning Portal statistics

by on January 12, 2010

I’m sure we can all agree that it’s been a tough year, with the planning sector being hit as hard – if not harder – than most others.
Despite that background, the shift of services to online channels continues apace, as the following table indicates.
I will follow up this post shortly with a full review of the Portal’s activities in 2009 together with our plans for 2010 and beyond.
However, for the time being, here are the headline stats in a nutshell.

    2008 2009 Growth
Total number of planning applications submitted via the Portal 144,979 166,965 15.2%
   
% of  planning applications submitted online via the Portal 24.5% 33.4% 36.3%
   
 Total number of visits to the Portal 5,852,234 6,616,469 13.1%
   
Average number of monthly visitors to the Portal 250,198 299,040 19.5%
   
Average number of monthly visits to the Portal 487,686 551,372 13.1%
   
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