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
22 January 2026 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Planning Inspectorate Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics Quarter 3 2025/2026

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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

Previous releases of Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics

Updates to this page

Published 21 December 2015
Last updated 22 January 2026 show all updates

  1. Quarter 3 2025/2026 file added and details box updated

  2. Quarter 2 2025/2026 information added

  3. The July publication of the tables was reissued with revisions to tables 1.1a and 1.1b. Please see the attached explanatory note for more information.

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

  5. Q3 24/25 data table

  6. 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.

  7. Data tables Quarterly and Annual Statistics June 2024

  8. Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics updated with Q4 data

  9. Updated with Q2 data

  10. Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics updated with Q1

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

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

  13. Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics updated

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

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

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

  17. Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics updated

  18. Quarterly and Annual Volume Statistics updated

  19. Update to quarterly and annual volume statistics

  20. Quarterly and annual volume statistics added

  21. Planning Inspectorate management information with quarterly statistics

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

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

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

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

  26. Statistical Release 29 October 2020 added

  27. Statistical Release for September 2020 added

  28. New statistical data and updated statistical release.

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

  30. Statistical Release July 2020 added.

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

  32. 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.

  33. Statistical Release April 2020 added

  34. Statistical Release March 2020 - new publication

  35. Table 1.4 updated

  36. Quarter 3 statistics published

  37. Quarter 2 data added

  38. Statistics update with Q1

  39. Statistical data updated for Q4

  40. Statistical tables updated

  41. Updated statistics data tables

  42. Update statistics tables

  43. Statistics data updated.

  44. Stats for Q3 and the Statistical Release published.

  45. 2017/18 Quarter 2 External Statistics files.

  46. Statistic tables updated.

  47. New statistics tables

  48. Quarter 3 External Statistics files added

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

  50. Quarterly reports updated and annual reports added.

  51. New quarter statistics added

  52. First published.

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