Planning Permission

(asked on 25th June 2020) - View Source

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

To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) how many local authority planning applications have been called in by the Planning Inspectorate; (2) how many of these were overturned by the Planning Inspectorate; and (3) how many Planning Inspectorate decisions were overturned by Ministers in (a) 2016/17, (b) 2017/18, and (c) 2018/19.


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Lord Greenhalgh
This question was answered on 9th July 2020

The Planning Inspectorate does not call in planning applications, this is done by Ministers. Ministers decide called in applications rather than the Planning Inspectorate, based on the recommendation of an independent Inspector.

The Planning Inspectorate publishes statistics on the number of cases called in by Ministers. Numbers of cases called in were as follows:

2016-17 - 17
2017-18 - 13
2018-19 - 8

The number of called in cases decided by Ministers where they disagreed with the planning Inspector's recommendation were

2016-17 - 3 (out of a total of 14 cases decided)
2017-18 - 2 (out of a total of 10 cases decided)
2018-19 - 1 (out of a total of 5 cases decided)

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