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Certificate of Lawfulness approval rate in Fife

Approval rate withheld for Fife. 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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certificate of lawfulness approval rate
118
Certificate of Lawfulness decisions
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Approved
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Refused
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Fife overall

How certificate of lawfulness compares in Fife

Certificate of Lawfulness (118 decided)
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Fife all types (3,030 decided)
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Other application types in Fife

Other (5,403 decided)
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Full (587 decided)
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Discharge of Conditions (213 decided)
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Listed Building (167 decided)
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Certificate of Lawfulness (118 decided)
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Prior Approval (80 decided)
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Trees (55 decided)
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Advertisement (35 decided)
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