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City of Edinburgh planning applications
8,065 applications. 87% approved. 41 days to decide.
As of September 2026, PlanIndex holds 8,065 planning applications from City of Edinburgh. 1,686 were decided in the trailing 12 months, with 87% of clear-cut outcomes approved.
City of Edinburgh takes a median of 41 days to decide a planning application. See how that compares.
All applications
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26/03710/S50 Awaiting decision
189 Morrison Street West End Edinburgh EH3 8DN
Request for a Planning Section 50 Certificate (Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005)
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26/0770/TPO Awaiting decision
Charles Bell Pavilion Astley Ainslie Hospital 143 Grange Loan Grange Edinburgh EH9 2HL
Sycamore tree T1,Tree removal by section fell.
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26/0771/TCO Awaiting decision
Tree Works Hawes Brae Queensferry South Queensferry
It's a large Norway maple overhanging Hawes Brae leaning over the road with a split fork removal of dangerous Norway Maple overhanging Hawes Brae Road.
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26/03669/OBL Awaiting decision
18 Torphichen Street West End Edinburgh
Application for the Discharge of a planning legal obligation. Tram contribution has been paid and we would like to discharge the obligation and remove the registration from the title deeds.
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26/0766/TPO Awaiting decision
27 Barnshot Road Colinton Edinburgh EH13 0DJ
Yew remove tree, japanese cedar, remove tree, cypress sp. remove tree, elwood cypress, remove tree, rhododendron group, remove trees.
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26/03666/FUL Awaiting decision
68 Telford Road Craigleith Edinburgh EH4 2LY
New rooms created at attic floor level. New dormers formed to accommodate on all elevations.
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26/0769/TCO Decided
11 Upper Gray Street Newington Edinburgh EH9 1SN
T1 eucalyptus reduce height from 20m to 15m. T2 birch reduce height from 12m to 11m and canopy nsw from 4m to 3m and 4m to 2m south.
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26/0767/TPO Awaiting decision
1 Redhall House Avenue Wester Craiglockhart Edinburgh EH14 1JJ
Common lime sycamore, var. tree works as described in report.
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26/0768/TCO Awaiting decision
56A The Causeway Duddingston Edinburgh EH15 3PZ
Ash with advanced dieback remove tree to the ground.
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26/0765/TCO Awaiting decision
Regent Royal And Carlton Terrace Gardens Regent Terrace Calton Hill Edinburgh
Crataegus monogyna and prunus padus fell both small trees as the hawthorn is dead and covered in ivy and the cherry is 90% dead.
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26/0763/TCO Awaiting decision
13 Claremont Crescent Broughton Edinburgh EH7 4HX
Large Holly approx 12 metres high and broad, sparse outer crown reduce crown by upto 1.5m all round, small ash approx 10 metres, in decline, remove to ground level.
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26/03650/FUL Awaiting decision
30 Dublin Street Lane South Broughton Edinburgh EH1 3PX
Install of ventilation system and flue to west elevation.
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26/03662/FULSTL Awaiting decision
12 Gayfield Place Lane Broughton Edinburgh EH1 3NZ
Retrospective change of use of dwellinghouse to short-term let visitor accommodation. No external alterations are proposed.
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26/03657/LBC Awaiting decision
10 Palmerston Road Marchmont Edinburgh EH9 1TN
Replacement garden room to rear ground floor and alterations to the roof over the kitchen and utility room.
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26/03660/FULSTL Awaiting decision
19 Hutchison Crossway Slateford Edinburgh EH14 1RQ
Retrospective change of use of an existing dwellinghouse to short term visitor accommodation (secondary letting).
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26/03653/LBC Awaiting decision
3F1 23 Eyre Crescent Broughton Edinburgh EH3 5EU
Replacement of existing sash windows on a like-for-like basis with new windows, custom-fitted with Slimline IGUs. All historical detail to be matched/reinstated.
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26/03658/FUL Awaiting decision
10 Palmerston Road Marchmont Edinburgh EH9 1TN
Replacement garden room to rear ground floor and alterations to the roof over the kitchen and utility room.
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26/03639/FUL Awaiting decision
33 Dick Place Edinburgh EH9 2JA
Alter roof to existing garden room and add adjoining garden store.
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26/03634/LBC Awaiting decision
45 Queen Charlotte Street Edinburgh EH6 7HT
To fit an external meter in the basement stair.
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26/03640/FUL Awaiting decision
27 Park Road Edinburgh EH6 4LA
Installation of an air source heat pump.
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26/0752/TCO Awaiting decision
Flat 2 16 Merchiston Park Merchiston Edinburgh EH10 4PN
Sycamore remove tree.
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26/03647/CLP Awaiting decision
48 The Murrays Hyvots Bank Edinburgh EH17 8UE
Proposed extension to rear of existing property.
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26/03643/CLESTL Awaiting decision
13 Willowbrae Road Duddingston Edinburgh EH8 7DB
Application for a Certificate of Lawfulness confirming existing use as short-term let accommodation is lawful.
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26/03641/LBC Awaiting decision
9 Pilrig Street Edinburgh EH6 5AH
internal alterations to remove doors and infill opening.
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26/0759/TCO Awaiting decision
4 St Margaret's Road Bruntsfield Edinburgh EH9 1AZ
Dawn redwood as per report.
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26/03637/FUL Awaiting decision
12 Howden Hall Drive Alnwickhill Edinburgh EH16 6UJ
Remove and rebuild garage and form new single storey rear extension.
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26/03630/LBC Awaiting decision
2F1 90 Grove Street Fountainbridge Edinburgh EH3 8AP
Replacement of existing sash windows on a like-for-like basis with new windows, custom-fitted with Slimline IGUs.
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26/0754/TPO Awaiting decision
Royal Bank Of Scotland 201 Gogar Station Road Gogar Edinburgh EH12 9SB
Acer pseudoplatanus to dismantle the tree to ground level.
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26/0751/TCO Awaiting decision
Flat 94 102 Commercial Street North Leith Edinburgh EH6 6LT
G1 trees opposite 102 Commercial Street - prune overhanging branch growth back to the verge line & sectional fell all dead trunks
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26/0761/TCO Awaiting decision
2 Barnshot Road Colinton Edinburgh EH13 0DH
Deadwood.
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26/03649/FUL Awaiting decision
6 Crewe Loan Royston Edinburgh EH5 2LP
Construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the property. Stepped access to the garden cill dropped on the existing kitchen window opening to create a glazed door access to the garden Opening partially infilled with facing brick to reduce the width. 1.8m high brick wall constructed on boundary line. New porch canopy formed over existing front entrance.
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26/03631/LBC Awaiting decision
1A Leopold Place Hillside Edinburgh EH7 5JW
Internaland external alterations. Remove and replace Fireplace 01 in Bedroom 01; Install stove within the existing living room fireplace (Fireplace 02); Form a new kitchen within the back room and replace the existing rear window with patio doors opening onto the private rear garden; Remove stone Platt in rear garden to install drainage; Replace existing external kitchen plastic drainage with new cast-iron.
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26/0756/TPO Awaiting decision
Royal Bank Of Scotland 201 Gogar Station Road Gogar Edinburgh EH12 9SB
Fraxinus excelsior to remove dead wood.
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26/0755/TPO Awaiting decision
Treeworks 80 Metres North East Of 239 Gogar Station Road Gogar Edinburgh
Fraxinus excelsior, remove dead wood.
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26/03648/S50 Decided
122 Craigour Drive Moredun Edinburgh EH17 7NT
Request for a Planning Section 50 Certificate (Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005)
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26/03635/PND Awaiting decision
58A Rannoch Road Clerwood Edinburgh EH4 7EN
Demolition of former janitors house.
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26/0762/TCO Awaiting decision
14B Merchiston Crescent Merchiston Edinburgh EH10 5AX
Silver birch pruning.
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26/0758/TPO Awaiting decision
Royal Bank Of Scotland 201 Gogar Station Road Gogar Edinburgh EH12 9SB
Acer pseudoplatanus to dismantle the tree to ground level.
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26/0753/TCO Awaiting decision
10 Inverleith Gardens Craigleith Edinburgh EH3 5PS
Cherry Blossom tree (T1) situated in rear garden of property shape and balance. Reduce in height. Slight thin.
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26/03605/FUL Awaiting decision
51 Silverknowes Road Silverknowes Edinburgh EH4 5HB
Conversion of existing external garage into gym, including removal and blocking up existing garage door. Extension of the same garage using timber frame construction to create a joined garden room with external access. Replacement of existing garage roof, raising it by 400mm and extending onto new garden room.
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26/03607/FUL Awaiting decision
17 Boswall Avenue Boswall Edinburgh EH5 2EA
Remove and replace the existing rear shed and decking with a new single storey rear extension.
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26/03619/LBC Awaiting decision
No.11 Hotel & Brasserie 11 Brunswick Street Hillside Edinburgh EH7 5JB
Internal alterations to form new bedrooms and make adjustments to existing bedrooms. Formation of new en suite bathrooms. Minor partition removals and new openings to be formed.
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26/03604/LBC Awaiting decision
55 Forrest Road Old Town Edinburgh EH1 2QP
Shopfront and internal alterations.
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26/03608/FUL Awaiting decision
9 Raeburn Mews Edinburgh EH4 1RG
Alterations and extension to end terrace property.
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26/03626/FUL Awaiting decision
55 Forrest Road Old Town Edinburgh EH1 2QP
Alterations to shopfront.
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26/03609/FULSTL Awaiting decision
Flat 2 3 Merchant Street Old Town Edinburgh EH1 2QD
Retrospective change of use of premises to short term let accommodation.
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26/03622/FUL Awaiting decision
106 Whitehouse Loan Morningside Edinburgh EH9 1BD
Single-storey extension to accommodate a hydrolysis cremation suite, connected to the existing funeral home by a glazed link.
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26/03621/LBC Awaiting decision
32 Charlotte Square New Town Edinburgh EH2 4ET
Works to lower ground floor including: change from two leaf to single leaf external lightwell door; removal of non-original draft lobby; formation of shower room; installation of a tea prep/wall lining; replacement of contemporary demountable ceiling and utilisation of an existing cellar as a bike store (as existing adjacent).
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26/03610/LBC Awaiting decision
75 Morningside Park Morningside Edinburgh EH10 5EZ
Replacement of existing sash windows on a like-for-like basis with new windows, custom-fitted with Slimline IGUs.
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26/03629/FUL Awaiting decision
Land 35 Metres South Of 2 Buckstone View Buckstone Edinburgh
Proposed new house, drive and garage.
Recent decisions
Data to September 2026
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26/0769/TCO Decided
11 Upper Gray Street Newington Edinburgh EH9 1SN
T1 eucalyptus reduce height from 20m to 15m. T2 birch reduce height from 12m to 11m and canopy nsw from 4m to 3m and 4m to 2m south.
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26/0730/TPO Granted
75 Camus Avenue Edinburgh EH10 6QY
T1 Sycamore - Reduce Overhanging branches by approx 2.5 - 3m reducing weight on decayed branches.
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26/0746/TCO Decided
20 Wester Coates Gardens Wester Coates Edinburgh EH12 5LT
Copper maple: remove. Maple x2: reduce in height by 1.5m, reduce the biased sides by up to 2.5m, thin crown by 10%. Mature birch: reduce height by 1.5m and reduce the biased side by up to 2m. Spindly birch: remove.
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26/03648/S50 Decided
122 Craigour Drive Moredun Edinburgh EH17 7NT
Request for a Planning Section 50 Certificate (Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005)
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26/0728/TCO Decided
Treeworks At South Oswald Road Grange Edinburgh
Ash T9952 - Remove., Ash T9954. - Remove deadwood. , Ash T9956.Reduce recently fractured limb to sound wood. - Reduce branch in contact with streetlight by 3m removing deadwood from branch.
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26/0738/TCO Decided
3 Strathearn Place Edinburgh EH9 2AJ
T1 Lime crown raise to 2.5m, remove low level epicormic growth up to 2m.
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26/0737/TCO Decided
2 Wester Coates Avenue Edinburgh EH12 5LS
Large lime (1) 30% height reduction of 4m. Large lime (2) 30% height reduction of 4m.
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26/0740/TCO Decided
Flat 1 13 Cluny Gardens Edinburgh EH10 6BH
T1 Silver Birch remove tree , as it is damaging the path / stairs .
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26/0698/TCO Decided
7 - 11 Great King Street, 13 Drummond Place Edinburgh EH3 6QW
T1 - Elm - Reduce overhanging branches by approximately 1-2m back to boundary wall, T2 - Willow - Reduce overhanging branches by approximately 2-2.5m back to boundary wall, T3 - Lime - Reduce overhanging branches by 1-1.5m back to boundary wall , T4 - Lime - Reduce overhanging branches by 1-1.5m back to boundary wall , T5 - Elder - Remove two limbs damaging wall. Reduce overhanging branches by 0.5-1m back to boundary wall
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26/0731/TPO Granted
31 York Road Edinburgh EH5 3EG
Rowan - Remove Tree.
The full record
Decisions between 2003 and 2026
PlanIndex holds 3,746 decisions from City of Edinburgh between 2003 and 2026, part of 8,065 applications on record. Over that period 89% of clear-cut outcomes were approvals, 2,363 granted against 278 refused. The busiest single year was 2026, with 3,782 applications recorded.
The trailing-year figures above track current activity. This record reaches back further, so a decision here may predate the online portal; each application still has its own page with the source link.
From the archive
Earliest records shown in full
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02/04272/FUL Granted
18 Glenlockhart Road Edinburgh EH14 1BN
Extend existing dwelling house
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02/04261/FUL Refused
7 Deanpark Bank Balerno Edinburgh EH14 7LG
Erect domestic garage
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02/04255/FUL Granted
65 Netherbank Edinburgh EH16 6YR
Alterations and extension to form new kitchen and garage on ground floor and 2no new bedrooms at 1st floor
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02/04270/FUL Granted
32 North Gyle Avenue Edinburgh EH12 8JR
Erection of a conservatory
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02/04263/FUL Granted
63 Frederick Street Edinburgh EH2 1LH
Change of use to educational use
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02/04355/FUL Granted
51 Gilberstoun Loan Edinburgh EH15 2RQ
Extension to house
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02/04275/ADV Granted
36A Blair Street Edinburgh EH1 1QR
Erect signage
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02/04254/OUT Granted
415 Gorgie Road Edinburgh EH11 2RS
415, 417, 419, 421 + 425 Gorgie Road - Demolition of existing factory and residential units erection of residential development
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02/04264/FUL Granted
6 Picardy Place Edinburgh EH1 3JT
Erection of satellite antenna (dish) (as amended)
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03/00011/FUL Refused
18 Hailes Gardens Edinburgh EH13 0JL
Garage to side of house, attic conversion with new dormers to front and rear, new doors to rear elevation
Decision speed
12 months to September 2026, where both dates are published
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Within 8 weeks the statutory target for most applications 1,107 66%
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8 to 13 weeks the target band for major development 388 23%
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Over 13 weeks often extended by agreement 191 11%
Planning agents in City of Edinburgh
The firms named as agent on the most applications on this register. Company information only.
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Frontier Forestry Ltd 100% granted overall 13
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Scott Hobbs Planning Ltd 92% granted overall 2
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Montagu Evans LLP 98% granted overall 2
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JWT Tree Services Ltd 100% granted overall 2
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Browse by ward
Applications by ward in City of Edinburgh
- Almond 433
- City Centre 1,664
- City Centre (Pre May 2017) 82
- Colinton/Fairmilehead 291
- Corstorphine/Murrayfield 308
- Craigentinny/Duddingston 197
- Drum Brae/Gyle 142
- Forth 243
- Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart 199
- Inverleith 541
- Inverleith (Pre May 2017) 28
- Leith 235
- Leith Walk 321
- Liberton/Gilmerton 197
- Meadows/Morningside (Pre May 2017) 25
- Morningside 689
- New Town (Pre 17 Nov 06) 47
- No Ward Number 690
- Pentland Hills 213
- Portobello/Craigmillar 309
- Sighthill/Gorgie 103
- Southside/Newington 738
- Southside/Newington (Pre May 2017) 27
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Applications by postcode district
Common questions
How many planning applications does City of Edinburgh decide?
In the 12 months to September 2026, City of Edinburgh decided 1686 planning applications. 87% of clear-cut outcomes were approvals.
How long does a planning decision take in City of Edinburgh?
The median time from a planning application being received to a decision was 41 days over the 12 months to September 2026. Individual cases vary with complexity and consultation responses.
How many City of Edinburgh decisions arrive within the eight week target?
Of the 1686 decisions in the 12 months to September 2026 where both dates are published, 66% came within eight weeks of the application being received, and 89% within thirteen weeks.
How many planning applications has City of Edinburgh decided in total?
PlanIndex holds 3746 decisions from City of Edinburgh between 2003 and 2026, out of 8,065 applications on record. Across that whole period 89% of clear-cut outcomes were approvals.
When is planning activity busiest in City of Edinburgh?
March 2026 was the busiest month across the 12 months to September 2026, with 571 applications recorded. The monthly pattern is listed on this page.
How do I find a planning application by its reference number?
Every application indexed here has its own page at a stable address. Look the reference up in a search engine together with the council name, or browse the latest applications below. Each page shows the description, address, dates and decision as the council published them.
Where can I see the full documents for an application?
Plans, drawings and officer reports stay on City of Edinburgh's own planning portal. Every application page here links straight to the source record.
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City of Edinburgh: 8,065 planning applications on record as of September 2026. Trailing 12 months: 1,686 decided, 87% approved, median 41 days to a decision. 5,364 new applications received in the same period. Decisions on record run between 2003 and 2026: 3,746 in total, 89% approved. Source: PlanIndex, planindex.co.uk.