Kirkwall East planning approval rate
Approval rate withheld for Orkney. 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
1,098
Decisions
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Approved
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Refused
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Orkney average
PlanningLens is currently withholding approval rates for Orkney, so no ward comparison is published for Kirkwall East. Decision volumes are still shown.
How Kirkwall East compares
Kirkwall East ward
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Orkney overall
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Recent decisions in Kirkwall East
25/376/CLOPUD
Alter a house · Thu 06 Nov 2025
25/366/HH
Install wall and roof ventilation outlets · Mon 03 Nov 2025
25/352/LB
Install secondary glazing, ducting and wall and ventilation extractors · Mon 03 Nov 2025
25/359/HH
Rebuild section of stone boundary wall and alter an access · Mon 27 Oct 2025
25/339/LB
Install replacement flat roof (amendment to 25/040/LB) · Tue 07 Oct 2025
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