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.
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Changes to these tables
We have made a change which we hope makes these Tables easier to navigate. The tables which give case totals be financial year have been removed from the Quarterly and Annual Volume statistics for this release - with the exceptions of Tables 1.2a and 1.3a which have been kept because they include corrections to previous data.
Annual totals are still available: they can be found in the previous release tables.
From April 2026 we plan to separate these out into three workbooks:
- one containing the time series information, broken down as totals by quarter;
- one containing the time series information, as annual totals; and
- one for the number of decisions by LPA and inspectors.
We also plan to make other minor changes to these workbooks to further improve their ease of use. This includes not updating historic annual totals. Please send any feedback on this proposal to: statistics@planninginspectorate.gov.uk
Notice of Corrections and Revisions
The administration of Local Plans Examination data has for a long time 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 system for processing and reporting on data.
We have reviewed the tables 1.2a, 1.2b, 1.3a and 1.3b, concerning the volume of Plans submitted and examined of differing types, and the volume of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) charging schedules submitted and examined. We have made minor revisions and minor corrections to these tables. The majority of these revisions and corrections were already identified in the previous release (October 2025), and marked as provisional corrections in that release while we verified them.
The following corrections were made:
- Adding in three submitted Plans and three issued Plan Reports to tables 1.2a and b between 2023/24 and 2024/25 that had been previously missed.
- Adding in two submitted CIL charging schedules and one issued CIL report to tables 1.3a and b that had been missed between 2018/19 and 2022/23.
The following revisions were made:
- Adjusting the categorisation of five Plans in tables 1.2a and b between 2015/16 and 2021/22 following their internal re-classification.
For more information, please see the Background Quality Report attached to the 22 January 2026 Statistical Release.
To obtain any additional statistics please contact statistics@planninginspectorate.gov.uk