Planning Permission: Cornwall

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 24 July 2007, Official Report, columns 968-9W, on planning permission: Cornwall, what quarterly aggregated statistics her Department collects; what the results are on a (a) Cornwall-wide and (b) national level in each of the last five years; and where data for individual planning applications are collected. (155076)

[holding answer 10 September 2007]: The department currently collects 150 items of data on development control from local and county planning authorities. Key information on decisions taken on planning permissions during the last five years are given in the table as follows:

*Number of planning applications decided and percentage granted: 2002-03 to 2006-07*
	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Cornwall¹
Major decisions	210	200	290	300	320
Percentage granted	65	71	72	74	78
Minor decisions	3,500	3,990	4,180	4,050	3,910
Percentage granted	78	77	74	77	81
Other decisions	7,050	7,570	7,670	6,480	6,620
Percentage granted	84	83	81	81	83

England
Major decisions	14,730	16,750	18,830	19,610	19,260
Percentage granted	81	78	75	75	75
Minor decisions	144,010	152,070	160,860	157,350	151,120
Percentage granted	81	78	76	76	76
Other decisions	426,810	455,930	465,630	421,740	417,030
Percentage granted	83	82	81	80	80
¹Consists of Restormel. Carrick, Caradon, Penwith, Kerrier and North Cornwall planning authorities. Source: Communities and Local Government General Development Control Returns, PS1/PS2.

More detailed information is published by the department and can be accessed at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/planningbuilding/planningstatistics/statisticsplanning/-quarterly statistics;

and

http://www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/planningbuilding/planningstatistics/developmentcontrolstatistics/-annual statistics

Volume 463: debated on Wednesday 12 September 2007