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Mr. Adley
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment on how many occasions in each of the last 15 years his Department has overruled a county council decision to refuse planning permission for gravel extraction; and if he will indicate the counties to which these decisions relate.
Mr. Marks
The number of occasions on which appeals were allowed in each of the years 1963 to 1977 against refusal by local planning authorities of planning permission for the working of gravel or of sand and gravel are shown on the attached list, together with the counties in which the sites were situated. The list includes appeals allowed against decisions of borough of district councils acting on behalf of county councils prior to 1st April 1974.
| 1963 | |
| Bucks | 1 |
| Devon | 1 |
| Durham | 1 |
| Herts | 2 |
| Hunts | 1 |
| Kent | 2 |
| Leics | 1 |
| Middlesex | 3 |
| Peterborough | 1 |
| East Suffolk | 1 |
| Surrey | 1 |
| 15 | |
| 1964 | |
| Cheshire | 1 |
| Essex | 1 |
| Herts | 2 |
| Hunts | 1 |
| Kent | 2 |
| Middlesex | 1 |
| Salop | 1 |
| 9 | |
| 1965 | |
| Hereford | 1 |
| Herts | 1 |
| Kent | 1 |
| Lancs | 1 |
| Notts | 2 |
| Surrey | 1 |
| Warks | 1 |
| 8 | |
| 1966 | |
| Bucks | 2 |
| GLC | 1 |
| Bexley LB | 1 |
| Hants | 1 |
| Hunts | 1 |
| Kent | 1 |
| Notts | 1 |
| Oxon | 1 |
| W Suffolk | 1 |
| Warks | 3 |
| Surrey | 2 |
| 15 | |
| 1967 | |
| Beds | 1 |
| Hants | 1 |
| Herts | 1 |
| Kent | 1 |
| Salop | 1 |
| Staffs | 1 |
| W Suffolk | 1 |
| W Sussex | 1 |
| NR Yorks | 1 |
| 9 | |
| 1968 | |
| Berks | 3 |
| Derbys | 1 |
| Dorset | 3 |
| GLC | 2 |
| Kent | 1 |
| Staffs | 1 |
| Warks | 1 |
| NR Yorks | 1 |
| 13 | |
| 1969 | |
| Essex | 1 |
| Hants | 1 |
| Leics | 1 |
| Northumberland | 1 |
| 4 | |
| 1970 | |
| Berks | 1 |
| Durham | 1 |
| Leics | 1 |
| Lincs (Kesteven) | 1 |
| Surrey | 1 |
| 5 | |
| 1971 | |
| Herts | 1 |
| Oxon | 1 |
| W Suffolk | 1 |
| Surrey | 1 |
| 4 | |
| 1972 | |
| Essex | 1 |
| Hants | 1 |
| Herts | 1 |
| 3 | |
| 1973 | |
| Nil | |
| 1974 | |
| Reading CBC | 1 |
| 1975 | |
| Herts | 1 |
| 1976 | |
| GLC | 1 |
| Kent | 1 |
| Lincs | 1 |
| Norfolk | 1 |
| Northants | 1 |
| Warks | 1 |
| 6 | |
| 1977 | |
| Kent | 1 |
| Surrey | 2 |
| 3 | |