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Snelsetter, Snelsetter Road, Hoy, Orkney KW16 3PA
Change of use of building from agricultural to domestic, re-roof, remove concrete and stone skew, replace a window, two side doors and garage door
Plot 10, Errival, St Ola, KW15 1SX
Erect a house with an integral garage and air source heat pump
Houton Road, Orphir, Orkney
Screening opinion request for coastal protection works
Baikies Noust, Evie Village, Evie, Orkney KW17 2PJ
Create an access and erect a fence (to close off existing access) and remove condition 04. (access) from planning permission 18/490/PP
Lilly's Lodges, Redland Road, Firth, Orkney KW17 2EU
Erect three self-catering pods with associated landscaping and create an access (retrospective)
1 King Street, Kirkwall, Orkney KW15 1JF
Reinstate a house and extend, including alterations, install an air source heat pump and erect a boundary fence
23 St Catherine's Place, Kirkwall, Orkney KW15 1HX
Remove boundary wall
Garden House, New Scapa Road, Kirkwall Orkney KW15 1BL
Change of use from previously consented 'Boarding House (Class 7)' to 'Hotel (Class 7)'
East End, Church Road, St Margarets Hope, South Ronaldsay, Orkney KW17 2SR
Re-roof house with Spanish slate, replace and install three rooflights and paint windows and door
Brettobreck, Kirbister Road, Stromness, Orkney KW16 3HU
Erect a building over existing slurry tank to form slatted court and erect a lean-to building
37 & 39 Victoria Street, Stromness, Orkney KW16 3BS
Change of use from Post Office to mixed use facility (Class 1A/3/10) including creative arts-hub and cafe/retail. Demolish existing rear outbuildings and form three-storey extension, remove trees, ins
Harrabrough, 2 Quoybanks Drive, Kirkwall Orkney KW15 1EJ
Extend a house
Thorden (Land Near), Deerness, Orkney
Erect a house with an air source heat pump and garage
Pier Office (Land Near), Pier Road, St Margarets Hope, South Ronaldsay, Orkney KW17 2SW
Install a temporary office building
Berrybank (Land Near), Evie, Orkney
Erect a house with air source heat pump and create an access
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Orkney Islands Council is not in England, so the Planning Inspectorate does not decide its planning appeals. They are decided by Scottish Government Planning and Environmental Appeals Division (DPEA). SiteLens holds that body’s own record, shown below. It is not comparable with the Inspectorate’s England figures, which are decided under different legislation, so it is read against that nation’s rate instead.
SiteLens is still collecting the DPEA's record, and a rate taken part-way through would reflect which parts have been collected rather than how Orkney Islands Council fares. The counts above are what is held so far and will rise. The counts above are published either way.
Source: the DPEA, read from its own published case record. Still being collected, so the counts are a floor and will rise.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.
Orkney Islands Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.
Orkney Islands Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.
SiteLens tracks the Orkney Islands Council planning register daily and enriches every new application automatically. Each is AI-classified by category and trade, given an estimated value band and a plain-English project brief, mapped, and checked against constraint flags like flood zones, conservation areas and green belt. Where an application names an agent, SiteLens shows the firm and matches companies to Companies House. Pro adds the applicant's name, the directors and company health behind each match, and the agent's direct email and phone where the council or firm publishes them, so you know who to speak to about the scheme.
You can also browse the council's own planning register on the official Orkney Islands Council planning portal.
Share of decided applications approved in the last 12 months. A guide, not a guarantee.
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