Ministers and industry welcome progress on waiting times for planning appeals

In November 2008, 37 per cent of all written submission appeals were decided within 12 weeks, compared with a figure of 4 per cent in April of that year.

Written submissions, which do not include cases involving public inquiries or hearings, make up the bulk of the Scottish Government's planning work and amounted to 1,400 cases in the 2008 financial year.

At present, Scottish Government ministers h...