Details published by An Bord Pleanala on their website (20th February 2015) show that the percentage of normal appeal cases being dealt with within the statutory 18 week period has increased to 83% in 2014, having been as low as 36% in 2012. The statistics also show that the number of normal appeals coming before the Board dropped from a high of 5,891 in 2007 down to 1,383 in 2014 (similar to the 2013 figure). It will be interesting to see if there is a significant increase in the figures for 2015 given the increased number of applications coming before local authorities.