HC Deb 10 May 1995 vol 259 cc480-1W
Ms Janet Anderson

To 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 Beresford

This 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:

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.