HC Deb 23 April 1985 vol 77 c380W
Mr. Heddle

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment, further to the answer to the hon. Member for Mid-Staffordshire on 1 April, Official Report, column 516, whether higher priority is given to determining appeals by public inquiry rather than by written representations.

Mr. Macfarlane

No. The number and proportion of planning appeals determined after a public inquiry and by written representations between 1979 and 1984 is as follows:

cent.) contained gunshot. I shall be considering very carefully indeed this whole question in the light of the Nature Conservancy Council's advice.

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