Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average time was for an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate to be heard following validation in each of the last five years.
The table below shows the average time for an appeal to be heard, following validation, in the last five years.
Fiscal Year Weeks
2010-11 14.3
2011-12 12.4
2012-13 14.8
2013-14 16
2014-15 13.8