Planning: Public Inquiries
(asked on 2nd May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of decisions of public planning inquiries did not follow the advice of the planning inspector in each year since 2010.
The table below shows the number of decisions on recovered planning appeals and called-in applications made by Ministers since 2010, together with the proportion of decisions which did not follow the Planning Inspector’s recommendation:
Calendar Year | Number of Cases decided | Number of Cases not in line with Inspector's recommendation | Percentage of decisions not in line with Inspector's recommendation |
2010 | 58 | 11 | 19% |
2011 | 63 | 6 | 10% |
2012 | 48 | 4 | 8% |
2013 | 70 | 14 | 20% |
2014 | 136 | 47 | 35% |
2015 | 68 | 13 | 19% |
2016 | 110 | 20 | 18% |
2017 | 54 | 10 | 19% |