Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many (a) site visits by (i) an inspector and (ii) an inspector's representative and (b) written exercises were conducted following appeals to the Planning Inspectorate on planning applications in (A) Birmingham, Edgbaston constituency and (B) the Birmingham City Council area in each of the last five years.
The table below gives information on site visits by Inspectors and others for the last five years, as well as those where we do not have statistics on who carried out the site visit.
Oct 18 - Sep 19 | Site visit by Inspector | Site visit by APO/ RTPI App | No Name/ Grade recorded |
All PINS | 19162 | 133 | 660 |
Birmingham LPA | 194 | 0 | 2 |
Edgbaston | 14 | 0 | 0 |
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Oct 19 - Sep 20 | Site visit by inspector | Site visit by APO/ RTPI App | No Name/ Grade recorded |
All PINS | 15694 | 667 | 655 |
Birmingham LPA | 134 | 1 | 4 |
Edgbaston | 20 | 0 | 0 |
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Oct 20 - Sep 21 | Site visit by inspector | Site visit by APO/ RTPI App | No Name/ Grade recorded |
All PINS | 15901 | 429 | 693 |
Birmingham LPA | 158 | 3 | 3 |
Edgbaston | 12 | 1 | 0 |
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Oct 21 - Sep 22 | Site visit by inspector | Site visit by APO/ RTPI App | No Name/ Grade recorded |
All PINS | 15047 | 530 | 534 |
Birmingham LPA | 154 | 7 | 5 |
Edgbaston | 13 | 0 | 2 |
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Oct 22 - Sep 23 | Site visit by inspector | Site visit by APO/ RTPI App | No Name/ Grade recorded |
All PINS | 15920 | 213 | 680 |
Birmingham LPA | 147 | 3 | 5 |
Edgbaston | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Note: APO = Appeals Planning Officer;
RTPI App = Royal Town Planning Institute Apprentices