§ Ms Janet AndersonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many interim development order permissions were re-registered within one specified time limit, broken down by local authority area, indicating in each case the name of the company making the application. [22604]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordThis information is not held centrally. However, according to statistics prepared for the County Planning Officers Society the following number of IDOs was registered in England and Wales, broken down by region:
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Region Number Northern (31): Cumbria 3 Northumberland 10 Tyne and Wear 1 Durham 17 Yorkshire and Humberside (44) North West (22): Lancashire 18 Greater Manchester 3 Cheshire 1 East Midlands (64): Derbyshire 12 Nottinghamshire 14 Lincolnshire 13 Leicestershire 24 Northamptonshire 1 West Midlands (54): Shropshire 10 Staffordshire 33 Walsall 5 Warwickshire 6 East Anglia(17): Cambridgeshire 7 Norfolk 7 Suffolk 3 South East (103): Oxfordshire 7 Buckinghamshire 3 Bedfordshire 7 Hertfordshire 7 Essex 13 Berkshire 7 Hampshire 8 Surrey 6 West Sussex 18 East Sussex 7 Kent 20
Region Number South West (99): Cornwall 18 Devon 17 Somerset 24 Dorset 13 Wiltshire 2 Avon 22 Gloucestershire 3 Wales (74): Gwynedd 13 Clwyd 16 Dyfed 19 Powys 7 West Glamorgan 2 Mid Glamorgan 8 South Glamorgan 5 Gwent 4 There was only one time period allowed for registration applications to be submitted to local mineral planning authorities. This period was six months and ran from 25 September 1991 to 25 March 1992—see paragraph 8a of MPG8.