City Centre planning approval rate
Approval rate withheld for City of Edinburgh. 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
7,777
Decisions
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Approved
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Refused
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City of Edinburgh average
PlanningLens is currently withholding approval rates for City of Edinburgh, so no ward comparison is published for City Centre. Decision volumes are still shown.
How City Centre compares
City Centre ward
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City of Edinburgh overall
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Recent decisions in City Centre
26/00929/LBC
Internal alterations and improvements to facilitate change of use from class 4 ( · Mon 09 Mar 2026
26/00925/LBC
Replace an existing, non-original double leaf entrance door, with a single leaf · Mon 09 Mar 2026
26/00676/LBC
Proposed reinstatement of original doorway, previously removed in 1982. · Fri 06 Mar 2026
26/00883/FUL
Single storey rear extension to a mid terrace dwelling with minor internal alter · Thu 05 Mar 2026
26/00860/LBC
Internal alterations to change use from commercial to Class 7 guesthouse includi · Wed 04 Mar 2026
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