Cowal planning approval rate
Approval rate withheld for Argyll & Bute. PlanningLens is temporarily withholding the headline approval rate for this council. The published record does not contain enough usable decision-date information to establish sufficiently complete and current coverage. This does not mean the previously shown percentage has been proved wrong. No official statistic is substituted in its place. Approval, refusal and rate figures are shown as – throughout this page. Decision volumes are unaffected and are still published. Why we withhold a rate
Last updated: September 2026
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ward approval rate
351
Decisions
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Approved
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Refused
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Argyll & Bute average
PlanningLens is currently withholding approval rates for Argyll & Bute, so no ward comparison is published for Cowal. Decision volumes are still shown.
How Cowal compares
Cowal ward
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Argyll & Bute overall
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Recent decisions in Cowal
Alterations and formation of decking and erection of extension to existing dwell · Tue 08 Sep 2026
Reinstatement of former conservatory (no longer there) with new conservatory · Thu 03 Sep 2026
Erection of detached garage · Mon 24 Aug 2026
Erection of detached garage and associated works · Thu 16 Jul 2026
Extension to south-west and south-east of existing cafe building to form additio · Mon 06 Jul 2026
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