To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list (a) the number of planning appeals made to his Department in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available, (b) the number of such appeals that were allowed and (c) the percentage that (b) represents of (a).
The table shows the number of planning appeals received, withdrawn prior to decision, decided and allowed. The success rate given is the number of appeals allowed as a percentage of the total number decided in each year.
Year
| Appeals received
| Appeals withdrawn
| Appeals decided
| Appeals allowed
| Percentage allowed of those decided
|
| 1978 | 11,609 | 2,671 | 8,952 | 2,504 | 28·0 |
| 1979 | 12,990 | 2,485 | 8,933 | 2,602 | 29·1 |
| 1980 | 16,208 | 2,921 | 13,130 | 4,044 | 30·8 |
| 1981 | 16,637 | 3,305 | 14,451 | 4,721 | 32·7 |
| 1982 | 13,900 | 2,591 | 12,915 | 4,003 | 31·0 |
| 1983 | 13,699 | 1,611 | 11,221 | 8,633 | 32·4 |
| 1984 | 16,192 | 2,475 | 11,643 | 3,773 | 32·4 |
| 1985 | 17,053 | 2,110 | 14,639 | 5,477 | 37·4 |
| 1985–86 | 17,839 | 2,143 | 14,130 | 5,581 | 39·5 |
| 1986–87 | 19,856 | 2,533 | 15,613 | 6,208 | 39·8 |
| 1987–88 | 22,482 | 3,173 | 18,474 | 6,955 | 37·6 |