Leith 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
1,159
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 Leith. Decision volumes are still shown.
How Leith compares
Leith ward
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City of Edinburgh overall
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Recent decisions in Leith
26/00734/CLP
The conversion of an existing unabitable loft space into a habitable loft space · Thu 05 Mar 2026
26/00743/WINPA
The Proposal involves the replacement of all 4 existin windows within the proper · Tue 03 Mar 2026
26/00686/FULSTL
Change of Use from flat (sui generis) to short-term let (Sui Generis). · Fri 27 Feb 2026
26/00684/LBC
Replacement of all 4 existing windows within the property with double glazed 1-o · Thu 26 Feb 2026
26/00464/WINPA
I intend to replace the window unit in the dormer roof room. The existing unit i · Mon 16 Feb 2026
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