Kirkwall West & Orphir 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
1,360
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 West & Orphir. Decision volumes are still shown.
How Kirkwall West & Orphir compares
Kirkwall West & Orphir ward
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Orkney overall
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Recent decisions in Kirkwall West & Orphir
26/036/PN
Install a 2.5 metre tower extension, nine antennas, 15 RFFs, and ancillary devel · Mon 02 Feb 2026
25/417/HH
Re-roof a house and alter roof pitch · Tue 23 Dec 2025
25/418/HH
Re-roof a house and alterations to roof pitch · Fri 05 Dec 2025
25/311/PP
Convert an office with ancillary accommodation to a house · Tue 28 Oct 2025
25/325/PP
Subdivide a house to create two houses and construct an access road (part retros · Thu 16 Oct 2025
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