Northern Ireland planning statistics April 2025 - March 2026
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Report on the volume of planning applications received and decisions issued in 2025/26. This is the eleventh annual statistical bulletin to report on activity and performance since the transfer of planning powers to councils in April 2015. The accompanying data tables contain the information underlying the charts and graphs featured in the bulletin as well as further analyses and breakdowns.
There have been some key events in recent years that will have impacted on planning activity and processing performance. These were the coronavirus pandemic with varying restrictions in place up until February 2022; the accessibility of the system for some users for a period during January and February 2022, and a significant change in IT planning systems with the development and implementation of two new planning systems in June and December 2022. All these factors should be borne in mind when interpreting these figures and when making comparisons with other time periods.
Documents
- Northern Ireland planning statistics 2025/26 annual statistical bulletin
- Northern Ireland planning statistics 2025/26 annual statistical press release
- Northern Ireland planning statistics 2025/26 annual statistical infographic
- Northern Ireland planning statistics 2025/26 annual statistical infographic alternative text
- Northern Ireland planning statistics 2025/26 annual statistical tables
- Northern Ireland planning statistics 2025/26 annual statistical tables (open format)
- Northern Ireland planning statistics 2025/26 annual statistical tables (csv format)
- Description of annual dataset variables