Planning performance

Enforcement activity

The table below presents enforcement activity for Q2 in comparison with the same period last year.

Enforcement Activity – Quarter 2 Comparison 2025/26 vs 2024/25

Cases Taken Up:
Q2 2025/26 – 123
Q2 2024/25 – 106

Complaints Received:
Q2 2025/26 – 150
Q2 2024/25 – 123

Complaints Founded:
Q2 2025/26 – 43
Q2 2024/25 – 25

Complaints Not Founded:
Q2 2025/26 – 27
Q2 2024/25 – 17

Breaches Resolved Informally:
Q2 2025/26 – 39
Q2 2024/25 – 51

Breaches Resolved Formally:
Q2 2025/26 – 1
Q2 2024/25 – 14

Notices Served:
Q2 2025/26 – 4
Q1 2024/25 – 18

Reports to the Procurator Fiscal:
Q2 2025/26 – 0
Q2 2024/25 – 0

Prosecutions:
Q2 2025/26 – 0
Q2 2024/25 – 0

Record all cases in the period where parties were formally notified in writing that enforcement action may be taken by the authority under Sections 127-137 of the T&CP (Scotland) Act 1997.

Notices Served include enforcement notices, breach of condition notices, planning contravention notices, stop notices, temporary stop notices, fixed penalty notices and Section 33 notices.