Planning: Inspections

(asked on 13th November 2023) - View Source

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 or (ii) an inspector's representative and (b) paper exercises were undertaken in response to appeals to the Planning Inspectorate in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Lee Rowley Portrait
Lee Rowley
Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
This question was answered on 21st November 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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