Official Statistics

Planning Inspectorate Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics

Numbers of applications, examinations, appeals and orders that have been received, decided and allowed, on a quarterly and annual basis.

From:
Planning Inspectorate
Published
21 December 2015
Last updated
17 July 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Planning Inspectorate Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics current - up to June 2025

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Details

The administration of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project applications have relied on spreadsheets for casework management, into which casework records are manually entered, reviewed and updated. The Planning Inspectorate is currently building an improved casework management system and, alongside that, is additionally creating an improved process for processing and reporting on data. This involves a review of data held in multiple sources that was previously published as Official Statistics and on the Nationally Significant Infrastructure website.

If revisions to tables 1.1a and 1.1b are required following this, they will be published in August. We expect the new systems and processes being built to improve the quality of our administrative data and reduce the likelihood that we would need to make revisions in the future.

To obtain any additional statistics please contact statistics@planninginspectorate.gov.uk

Previous releases of Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics

Updates to this page

Published 21 December 2015
Last updated 17 July 2025 show all updates

  1. Planning Inspectorate Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics current - up to June 2025

  2. Q3 24/25 data table

  3. update added 18/10/24: Please note we have spotted an error on table 5.1 impacting these LPAs North Northamptonshire, North Yorkshire, Somerset, Cumberland, Westmoreland and Furness. We will be updating the table to correct this on 24 October.

  4. Data tables Quarterly and Annual Statistics June 2024

  5. Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics updated with Q4 data

  6. Updated with Q2 data

  7. Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics updated with Q1

  8. We have republished the Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics and the Casework Database with minor amendments to table 5.2.

  9. An error was identified in one of the category labels, which has now been corrected.

  10. Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics updated

  11. Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics document updated with quarter 3 2022-2023

  12. Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics updated to Q2 2022-2023

  13. Updated to Q1 2022-2023 Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics

  14. Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics updated

  15. Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics updated

  16. Update to quarterly and annual volume statistics

  17. Quarterly and annual volume statistics added

  18. Planning Inspectorate management information with quarterly statistics

  19. Ad hoc analyses and statistics moved onto their own page: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/planning-inspectorate-ad-hoc-analyses-and-statistics

  20. Monthly Statistical Release Background Quality Report added as an HTML attachment

  21. Statistical Release 26 November 2020, Statistical Release data tables and charts 26 November 2020 and updated pre-release list for published statistics.

  22. Statistical Release - July to September 2020 and second quarter of 2020/21 data sheets added.

  23. Statistical Release 29 October 2020 added

  24. Statistical Release for September 2020 added

  25. New statistical data and updated statistical release.

  26. Statistics publication timetable updated to include the statistical release on Monday 6th July 2020 at 9:30 am

  27. Statistical Release July 2020 added.

  28. This statistical release presents statistics covering a range of casework dealt with by The Planning Inspectorate in England.

  29. We have delayed publication of our appeals statistics and appeals data set after our quality review identified problems with the data we intended to publish. Our normal review process has been affected by the need to carry out additional data extraction, reporting and analysis associated with the impact of Covid-19 on The Planning Inspectorate’s operations. We will now be publishing our statistics and data on Wednesday 27th May 2020 at 9.30am.

  30. Statistical Release April 2020 added

  31. Statistical Release March 2020 - new publication

  32. Table 1.4 updated

  33. Quarter 3 statistics published

  34. Quarter 2 data added

  35. Statistics update with Q1

  36. Statistical data updated for Q4

  37. Statistical tables updated

  38. Updated statistics data tables

  39. Update statistics tables

  40. Statistics data updated.

  41. Stats for Q3 and the Statistical Release published.

  42. 2017/18 Quarter 2 External Statistics files.

  43. Statistic tables updated.

  44. New statistics tables

  45. Quarter 3 External Statistics files added

  46. Updated to the 2016/17 Quarter 2 files.

  47. Quarterly reports updated and annual reports added.

  48. New quarter statistics added

  49. First published.

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