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PERFORMANCE TRENDS
Table 5: Comparison of Stats over the last 5 years – significant to notice the large decline in applications of all varieties from 2020 – 2024 largely instigated by the lockdown and subsequent economic down-turn from which there has been little recovery especially in terms of development applications and Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs). This becomes more apparent when the figures for 2018 and 2019 are also considered, when 1,301 and 1,115 total applications were received per year, respectively.
Annual Stats
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
All (Total for the year)
Building Plans
Catalytic Projects* / Mining Apps
Planning Applications
Enquiries
EIAs (Private & Mining post 2022)
720 778
158 225
0 2
202 213
293 254
67 84
826 729 675
338 235 240
0 72 31
251 188 182
187 172 158
50 57 64
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