Identity Cards: Planning Applications Mr. Pickles 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. Joan Ryan 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.