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.
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.