Abbey planning approval rate
Approval rate withheld for Dumfries & Galloway. 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
1,559
Decisions
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Approved
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Refused
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Dumfries & Galloway average
PlanningLens is currently withholding approval rates for Dumfries & Galloway, so no ward comparison is published for Abbey. Decision volumes are still shown.
How Abbey compares
Abbey ward
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Dumfries & Galloway overall
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Recent decisions in Abbey
INSTALLATION OF REPLACEMENT RAINWATER GOODS, FASCIAS, SOFFITS AND PAINITING EXTE · Mon 21 Sep 2026
ERECTION OF 2 BUILDINGS COMPRISING 7 BUSINESS UNITS (CLASS 4) · Fri 18 Sep 2026
ERECTION OF DWELLINGHOUSE (CLASS 9), INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND SOAKAWAY, F · Wed 09 Sep 2026
ERECTION OF FORESTRY SHED - PARTIALLY RETROSPECTIVE · Tue 01 Sep 2026
ERECTION OF AGRICULTURAL BUILDING · Fri 14 Aug 2026
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