The Lochs planning approval rate
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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ward approval rate
72
Decisions
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Approved
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Refused
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Fife average
PlanningLens is currently withholding approval rates for Fife, so no ward comparison is published for The Lochs. Decision volumes are still shown.
How The Lochs compares
The Lochs ward
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Fife overall
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Recent decisions in The Lochs
No recent comparable residential decisions found for this ward specifically. Check the council-level data for a broader view.
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Other wards in Fife
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