Planning Permission: Appeals

(asked on 9th January 2015) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many planning appeals were recovered from local authorities in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 9th February 2015

A planning recovery entails the appeal being decided by Ministers directly, rather than the Planning Inspectorate on behalf of the Secretary of State.

As I noted in my previous answer, in 2013-14, just 0.9% of planning and enforcement appeals were decided by Ministers.

To assist scrutiny, the table below lists the number of recoveries from the last ten years.

Date of recovery

Appeals recovered

2005

228

2006

166

2007

123

2008

97

2009

48

2010

74

2011

84

2012

132

2013

137

2014

82

As outlined in previous Written Ministerial Statements, in recent years, the recovery criteria were intentionally changed to consider recovering more appeals in specific areas.

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