§ Miss Herbisonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many appeals under the Town and Country Planning Acts have been made to him during the past 10 years; and in how many of these he has given the decision in favour of the appellant, giving separate figures for each planning authority in Scotland.
§ Mr. MaclayThe following table shows how appeals lodged in the ten year period 1951–60 were disposed of:
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— Lodged With-drawn Sustained Dismissed County Councils Aberdeen 39 15 5 18 Angus 16 4 3 8 Argyll 9 5 3 1 Ayr 39 14 8 6 Banff 13 — 3 10 Berwick 15 2 5 8 Bute 3 2 — 1 Caithness 4 — 2 2 Clackmannan 14 2 2 8 Dumfries 23 11 6 5 Dunbarton 121 35 29 30 East Lothian 18 4 9 4 Fife 55 19 9 23 Inverness 27 10 8 8 Kincardine 11 3 2 6 Kirkcudbright 24 9 7 8 Lanark 224 59 88 72 Midlothian 35 20 8 5 Moray and Nairn 21 7 6 7 Orkney — — — — Peebles 2 1 1 — Perth and Kinross 53 14 12 23 Renfrew 92 24 26 35 Ross and Cromarty 8 3 3 2 Roxburgh 6 2 1 3 Selkirk 8 5 1 2 Stirling 71 29 17 18 Sutherland 3 1 — 2 West Lothian 17 5 5 5 Wigtown 11 5 — 4 Zetland 1 — — 1 Town Councils Aberdeen 46 16 11 18 Airdrie 7 3 3 1 Arbroath 8 2 3 3 Ayr 15 5 6 4 Clydebank 26 6 11 8 Coatbridge 21 8 5 8 Dumbarton 12 3 6 2 Dumfries 6 3 1 2 Dundee 55 13 30 11 Dunfermline 8 1 1 6 Edinburgh 78 23 22 31 Falkirk 19 10 5 4 Glasgow 382 118 137 107 Greenock 10 3 4 3 Hamilton 15 6 6 1 Inverness 20 13 5 2 Kilmarnock 11 3 5 2 Kirkcaldy 32 10 13 8 Motherwell and Wishaw 24 9 9 5 Paisley 32 14 12 6 Perth 5 3 1 1 Port Glasgow 2 — 1 1 Rutherglen 9 3 3 3 St. Andrews — — — — Stirling 12 4 4 3 Thurso — — — — Total 1,838* 589 573 565 * Includes a total of 111 appeals not yet disposed of.