THIS is the twelfth annual report on planning permit activity in Victoria. A detailed summary of statistical information for the 2014-15 financial year, the data is provided by the 79 local government authorities, the Minister for Planning and the Victorian Civil and Administration Tribunal.

Above: Melbourne / by John Christian Fjellestad.

This annual report covers information for the state aggregated and consistently presented at three levels:

• state;
• metropolitan Melbourne and rural/regional Victoria; and
• three metropolitan and three rural/regional subregion

The information in this annual report includes:

• the number of permit applications received and decided;
• the number of permit applications reviewed at VCAT;
• the estimated cost of works for permits issued;
• the value of fees for applications received;
• the time to process permits and the number processed within sixty days;
• the number of permits that required further information requests, public notice, referral or involved submissions;
• the number of permits by category;
• changes in land use; and
• comparison information with previous years and across schemes.

Photo: Melbourne / John Christian Fjellestad / Licensed under Creative Commons BY 2.0.