Housing: Planning Permission

(asked on 25th November 2015) - View Source

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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each of the last five years, how many planning appeals were made against local authority decisions on major housing schemes; what was the average time taken by the Planning Inspectorate to deal with those appeals; how many took longer than six months; how many have so far been made this year, and of those how many have taken, or are scheduled to take, longer than six months.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 9th December 2015

The table below shows the number of planning appeals made against local authority decisions on major housing schemes (10 or more houses). It shows the average time taken, how many took longer than six months, how many have been made so far this year and of those, how many have taken or will take longer than six months.


s78 planning appeals for major dwellings (10+)

Start Date

Number of decisions

Average days to decide

Number of appeal decisions that exceeded 6 months (start to decision)

2010-2011

626

163

142

2011-2012

473

146

57

2012-2013

397

166

86

2013-2014

495

162

117

2014-2015

587

166

230

2015-2016

392

185

157

Number of decisions in progress that are beyond 6 months (in age) = 62

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