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Identity Cards: Planning Applications

Volume 457: debated on Monday 19 February 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many planning applications have been made by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies for identity interview centres; and in which such local authorities applications have been made. (120784)

There are 69 proposed locations for IPS interview offices and planning applications for change of use have been made (by Mapeley Abl) for 31 of the offices as shown below:

Interview office

Local authority

Glasgow

Glasgow city council

Newcastle

Newcastle upon Tyne city council

Belfast

Belfast city council

Manchester

Manchester city council

Leeds

Leeds city council

Newport

Newport city council

Birmingham

Birmingham city council

Peterborough

Peterborough city council

Plymouth

Plymouth city council

Reading

Reading borough council

Liverpool

Liverpool city council

Sheffield

Sheffield city council

Derby

Derby city council

Luton

Luton borough council

Blackburn

Blackburn and Darwen borough council

Chelmsford

Chelmsford borough council

Bristol

Bristol city council

Portsmouth

Portsmouth city council

Swansea

Swansea city and borough council

Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough council

Leicester

Leicester city council

Wrexham

Wrexham county borough council

Stoke on Trent

Stoke on Trent city council

Crawley

Crawley borough council

Norwich

Norwich city council

Dover

Dover district council

Ipswich

Ipswich borough council

Kendal

South Lakeland district council

Lincoln

Lincoln city council

Northampton

Northampton borough council

Carlisle

Carlisle city council

A number of local planning authorities have told IPS that using offices for interviews does not constitute a change of use and does not require a planning application to be submitted.

No further planning applications will be made.