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11/10/2013
Planning Applications Continue To Fall
The overall number of planning applications submitted in Northern Ireland continues to fall, as a new report shows a 7% decrease in the first quarter of 2013/14, compared to the same period last year.
The total number has fallen from from 3,233 to 2,997.
However, the latest reduction is less than the falls recorded in the first quarter of previous years, which were typically in the range of 16-17%.
The figures were revealed in a new Department of the Environment (DOE) report.
Despite the overall decline, the report showed an increase of almost one fifth (17%) in the amount of residential planning applications in urban areas in Northern Ireland during the first quarter of 2013.
790 applications were submitted in the first quarter of 2013/14 compared to 676 for the same period last year.
The news follows a series of successive falls in applications in quarter one over recent years and contrasts with the first quarter in 2008/09 when over three times as many (2,452) were received.
In rural areas, however, the number fell from 1,043 to 854 (down 18%) over the first quarter of 2013.
DOE Planning issued decisions on 2,825 applications over the period, down by almost one fifth (18%) for the same quarter last year (3,437).
Overall, 95% of decisions issued for planning applications in the quarter were approved, one percentage point higher than for the same period in 2012/13.
The majority of applications received by the Department are still for residential development, accounting for over half (55%) of all applications received in quarter one of 2013/14.
Urban and rural areas represented similar proportions of residential applications (48% and 52% respectively).
The vast majority of renewable energy applications received in quarter one 2013/14 were for single wind turbines (185 out of 238 renewable energy applications received or 78%).
The number of decisions issued against renewable energy applications increased by over a quarter (26%) from 142 in the first quarter of 2012/13 to 179 in the first quarter of 2013/14.
Over nine in ten (94%) of renewable energy applications were approved.
(IT/CD)
The total number has fallen from from 3,233 to 2,997.
However, the latest reduction is less than the falls recorded in the first quarter of previous years, which were typically in the range of 16-17%.
The figures were revealed in a new Department of the Environment (DOE) report.
Despite the overall decline, the report showed an increase of almost one fifth (17%) in the amount of residential planning applications in urban areas in Northern Ireland during the first quarter of 2013.
790 applications were submitted in the first quarter of 2013/14 compared to 676 for the same period last year.
The news follows a series of successive falls in applications in quarter one over recent years and contrasts with the first quarter in 2008/09 when over three times as many (2,452) were received.
In rural areas, however, the number fell from 1,043 to 854 (down 18%) over the first quarter of 2013.
DOE Planning issued decisions on 2,825 applications over the period, down by almost one fifth (18%) for the same quarter last year (3,437).
Overall, 95% of decisions issued for planning applications in the quarter were approved, one percentage point higher than for the same period in 2012/13.
The majority of applications received by the Department are still for residential development, accounting for over half (55%) of all applications received in quarter one of 2013/14.
Urban and rural areas represented similar proportions of residential applications (48% and 52% respectively).
The vast majority of renewable energy applications received in quarter one 2013/14 were for single wind turbines (185 out of 238 renewable energy applications received or 78%).
The number of decisions issued against renewable energy applications increased by over a quarter (26%) from 142 in the first quarter of 2012/13 to 179 in the first quarter of 2013/14.
Over nine in ten (94%) of renewable energy applications were approved.
(IT/CD)
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