Property Development: Planning Permission

Julia Goldsworthy
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many planning permissions were granted to home owners for improvements to their residential property in 2008-09.

Margaret Beckett
The number of planning permissions granted to home owners for improvements to their residential property in 2008-09 is tabled as follows:

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|Period                                                                          |Number granted|
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|April-December 2008                                                             |167,000       |
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|Source:Communities and Local Government General Development Control Returns PSF.|              |
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The figure for January to March 2009 will be published on 26 June 2009.