Portobello/Craigmillar 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
1,660
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 Portobello/Craigmillar. Decision volumes are still shown.
How Portobello/Craigmillar compares
Portobello/Craigmillar ward
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City of Edinburgh overall
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Recent decisions in Portobello/Craigmillar
26/00773/FUL
Construction of two garages on the site of former garages associated with 6/4 & · Thu 05 Mar 2026
26/00817/FUL
Demolition of existing attached car port, minor alterations to the existing exte · Tue 03 Mar 2026
26/00669/FULSTL
Change of use from residential to short-term let (Sui Generis). · Mon 23 Feb 2026
26/00573/FUL
New shopfront and associated works. · Mon 16 Feb 2026
26/00540/LBC
Existing single glazed timber sash and case windows replaced with new double gla · Thu 12 Feb 2026
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