Forth 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
1,290
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 Forth. Decision volumes are still shown.
How Forth compares
Forth ward
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City of Edinburgh overall
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Recent decisions in Forth
26/00786/FUL
Single storey rear extension to existing dwellinghouse. · Fri 06 Mar 2026
26/00907/CLP
Erect flat roofed single storey extension to rear of property. · Fri 06 Mar 2026
26/00720/FUL
Conversion of garage and alteration of frontage. · Thu 26 Feb 2026
26/00716/FUL
Alterations to an existing semi-detached dwelling, including a rear dormer exten · Wed 25 Feb 2026
26/00327/FUL
New driveway in front of dwelling house (retrospective). · Mon 23 Feb 2026
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✓ PDF report to share with your architect
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