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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many injunctions against unauthorised developments were pursued by local authorities in each year since 2005.

The numbers of enforcement injunctions granted and refused can be found in the Government statistical tables: Table P127: district planning authorities - enforcement action and Table P145: 'county matters' planning authorities - enforcement action on the following website: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics

These tables contain information from 2004-05 to September 2014 (latest figures available).

As we stated in our departmental press release of 10 January 2015, on the new Planning Enforcement Fund, whilst most planning breaches are resolved without use of the courts, over the last 10 years local planning authorities in England have issued an average of 60 injunctions a year. These are typically for serious breaches of planning rules.