§ Mr. Fowlerasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government how many public inquiries were held into refusals of planning permission by local authorities in each of the years 1960 to 1966, inclusive; in how many of these cases, in each year, the inspector recommended a variation in the local authority's decisions; and in how many of these cases he did not act in accordance with the inspector's recommendations.
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§ Mr. MacCollI regret that the information is not available in the form requested, but the following planning appeal figures for England relate to
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 Number of appeals allowed 1,144 1,127 1,350 1,326 1,105 844 844 Number of appeals dismissed 3,307 3,810 4,011 3,821 3,933 3,524 3,713 Total of appeals decided 4,451 4,937 5,361 5,147 5,038 4,368 4,557 Number of decided appeals where the decision was contrary to Inspectors' recommendations — 181 91 87 181 164 97