HC Deb 18 January 1988 vol 125 cc559-60W
Dr. Cunningham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if, pursuant to his reply of 11 January,Official Report, columns 78–9, he will give the locations of those planning appeal decisions made by him since 1980, contrary to the inspectors' recommendations.

Mr. Ridley

The table shows the local planning authorities within whose areas planning appeal decisions were made by the Secretary of State for the Environment contrary to the inspectors' recommendations, for each year from 1984, the earliest date from which information on an individual planning authority basis is available, to 30 September 1987.

Year and county Planning authority
1984
Berkshire Wokingham
Cambridgeshire Peterborough
Cheshire Congleton
Essex Chelmsford
Hampshire Hart2
New Forest
Rushmoor
Lancashire Wyre
Somerset Mendip
Staffordshire Staffordshire Moorlands
Greater Manchester Salford2
West Midlands Walsall
London Brent
Waltham Forest
1985
Avon Woodspring
Berkshire Berkshire CC
Reading
Windsor and Maidenhead2
Wokingham
Cumbria South Lakeland within the National Park
County Durham County Durham
Essex Basildon
Leicestershire Hinckley and Bosworth
Lincolnshire Lincoln
Oxfordshire South Oxfordshire
Suffolk Babergh (2)
Surrey Mole Valley
Reigate and Banstead
Waverley (2)
West Sussex Mid Sussex
Greater Manchester Bolton
Merseyside Knowsley
London Greenwich
Lambeth
1986
Avon Woodspring
Berkshire Wokingham
Cambridgeshire Peterborough

Year and county Planning authority
Cornwall Penworth
Essex Colchester
Hertfordshire St. Albans (2)
Welwyn Hatfield
Kent Maidstone
Thanet
Nottinghamshire Broxtowe
Oxfordshire South Oxfordshire
Staffordshire Stafford
Warwickshire Stratford-on-Avon
West Sussex Chichester
Horsham
West Yorkshire Calderdale (2)
London Brent
Bromley (2)
Harrow
1987
Avon Bristol
Bedfordshire Luton
Cambridgeshire Cambridge (2)
Essex Brentwood (2)
Castle Point
Hampshire Fareham
New Forest
Kent Tunbridge Wells
Northumberland Tynedale
Nottinghamshire Nottingham
Surrey Elmbridge (2)
South Yorkshire Doncaster
London City of Westminster (2)

Note: Figure in brackets is the number of decisions in the year.