§ Mr. Costainasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many planning appeals have been dealt with by his Department in the last 12 months; and how many appeals are outstanding at the present time, if possible sub-divided into residential, commercial and industrial applications.
§ Mr. Graham PageSome 5,500 planning appeals were decided during 1971 and at the end of the year just under 7,500 were outstanding, including 1,200 held in abeyance. No subdivision of the outstanding appeals is available, but of those decided in 1971, 59 per cent. related to residential, 3 per cent. to industrial and 11 per cent. to commercial or mixed commercial and industrial proposals. Those percentages include both new development and changes of use. The remaining 24 per cent. comprises a great variety of miscellaneous proposals.