Online Planning Applications increased by 50% in the past year

You may have seen CLGs recent comms regarding the national plannning apllication stats for Jan – March 2010.

There were 120,360 planning applications recorded in LPAs PS1 returns.

During the same period there were 51,267 online applications made via the Portal.

This equates to 42.6% of all applications made; by contrast in the same period 1 year ago the percentage was just 30.4% (33,554)

Therefore in the past year online planning application submission has increased by 50%

In June there were 21,126 applications made through the Portal which equates to  a 58.9% increase from June 2009 (13,291)