Property Development: Planning Permission
(asked on 22nd May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the average time taken for planning decisions to be made for significant development projects.
Answered by
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
This question was answered on 5th June 2023
The available information shows that, during the five quarters from 1 October 2021 to 31 December 2022, local planning authorities made 53 decisions on major public service infrastructure developments. Of these, 46 were decided on time: eight within ten weeks and 38 within the period agreed within a performance agreement.
Figures for the available quarters are available in the PS2 CSV open data file here.