§ Mr. Cordleasked the Secretary of State for the Environment in how many appeals against the various local planning authorities' refusal of planning permission, in the last 10 years for which figures are available, did the inspector recommend that the appeal be allowed.
§ Mr. OakesInformation in the form requested is not available. The numbers of appeals allowed in each of the last nine years after a local inquiry were as follows:
Year Number of appeals allowed by decision of the Secretary of State Number of appeals allowed by decision of Inspectors 1965 847 — 1966 842 — 1967 981 — 1968 770 — 1969 708 65 1970 529 207 1971 445 195 1972 356 321 1973 398 252 Only a small proportion of appeals are decided by the Secretary of State contrary to the recommendation of the inspectors.
§ Mr. Cordleasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many cases of appeals against the various local planning authorities' refusal of planning permission, in the last 10 years for which figures are 478W available, was the recommendation of the inspector not accepted.
§ Mr. OakesThe information requested is as follows:
Year Number of decisions contrary to inspector's recommendations 1964 181 1965 164 1966 97 1967 108 1968 78 1969 85 1970 58 1971 41 1972 55 1973 68
§ Mr. Cordleasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many appeals against the various local planning authorities' refusal of planning permission were heard in each of the last 10 years for which figures were available.
§ Mr. OakesThe number of planning appeals decided following a local inquiry during the past 10 years was as follows:
1964 5,038 1965 4,368 1966 4,557 1967 4,418 1968 2,983 1969 3,051 1970 2,773 1971 2,868 1972 2,781 1973 2,509