Planning Permission

(asked on 17th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what average length of time is taken by his Department to make a decision on a planning application referred to it.


Answered by
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Nick Boles
This question was answered on 23rd June 2014

During 2013/14, 272 planning applications were referred to the Secretary of State under the Town and Country Planning (Consultation) (England) Direction 2009. Records indicate that the average number of days it took to make a decision was 21 days.

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