The National Rural Conference 2025

Bookings are now officially open for the National Rural Conference 2025, which will take place online from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 September.
This is the Rural Services Network’s flagship event of the year, bringing together rural decision-makers, practitioners, and advocates for four days of live, interactive sessions focused on the future of rural communities.
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Local planning authority performance

Local planning authority performance is an important area to manage and monitor, with significant consequences where an authority is deemed to be underperfoming against set criteria (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-planning-performance-criteria-for-designation). To help understand your authority's position, the following analysis presents data showing the speed and quality of decisions made over a two year period. All data is taken from https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics, and future published data from the same source will be used to keep the analysis up to date.

- Analysis of Local planning authority performance
- Analysis user guide