New statistics have revealed the average decision times for major and local housing developments has grown shorter.

It is understood from July to September, there were 25 decisions made on major housing developments with an average decision time of 34.4 weeks.

This was 30 weeks quicker than the previous quarter (64.4 weeks) and four weeks quicker than the equivalent quarter in 2014/15 (38.5 weeks).

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Overall, 1,426 decisions were made on local housing developments. The average decision time of 13.1 weeks was three days quicker than the previous quarter (13.6 weeks) and eight days quicker than the equivalent quarter in 2014/15 (14.3 weeks).

In addition, a further twelve major concluded housing applications were subject to separate processing agreements, of which seven (58%) met the agreed timescale that had been set between the developer and the local authority.

A further 34 concluded local housing applications were subject to separate processing agreements, of which 24 (71%) met the agreed timescale.

The overall rate of approvals for all types of application was 94.0% in the period July to September 2015, similar to the previous quarter (93.7%) and the equivalent quarter two in 2014/15 (94.1%).

(LM)