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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many planning appeals to his Department on new housing projects have been (a) approved and (b) not approved in 2016.

Planning Inspectors determine each appeal on its individual merits, in light of the circumstances, and policy, applicable to each case.

We publish on a quarterly basis appeals decided and their outcome on PINS part of gov.uk, see link below (Table 2.5).

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/planning-inspectorate-statistics