{"Overview":{"Id":24613,"ExtId":"14021031000003","Title":"Planning Permission: Hampshire","HRSTag":"hs_8Question","Date":"2014-02-10T00:00:00","Location":"Written Corrections","House":"Commons","Source":3,"VolumeNo":575,"ContentLastUpdated":"2016-03-04T23:12:40.743","DebateTypeId":4,"SectionType":4,"NextDebateExtId":"","NextDebateTitle":"","PreviousDebateExtId":"14021031000001","PreviousDebateTitle":"Ministerial Correction"},"Navigator":[{"Id":24610,"Title":"Ministerial Corrections","ParentId":null,"SortOrder":1,"ExternalId":"98a22e86-91ac-4244-a517-4f7c97b1f69c","HRSTag":null,"HansardSection":null,"Timecode":null},{"Id":24612,"Title":"Communities and Local Government","ParentId":24610,"SortOrder":3,"ExternalId":"14021031000002","HRSTag":"hs_6bDepartment","HansardSection":"1-1","Timecode":null},{"Id":24613,"Title":"Planning Permission: Hampshire","ParentId":24612,"SortOrder":4,"ExternalId":"14021031000003","HRSTag":"hs_8Question","HansardSection":"1-1","Timecode":null}],"Items":[{"ItemType":"Contribution","ItemId":21341447,"MemberId":59,"AttributedTo":"Mr Mike Hancock","Value":"To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many planning appeals have resulted in local authority decisions being overturned by the planning inspector in <em>(a)</em> Portsmouth South constituency and <em>(b)</em> Hampshire in each of the last five years.\r\n\r\n<span id=\"vol572_col571W\" class=\"cross-reference\" data-house-id=\"1\" data-column-number=\"571W\" data-volume-number=\"572\"><em>[Official Report, 17 December 2013, Vol. 572, c. 571W.]</em></span>\r\n\r\n<em>Letter of correction from Nick Boles:</em>\r\n\r\nAn error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Portsmouth South (Mr Hancock) on 17 December 2013.\r\n\r\nThe full answer given was as follows:","OrderInSection":1,"Timecode":null,"ExternalId":"14021031000005","HRSTag":"Question","HansardSection":"1-1","UIN":"179932","IsReiteration":false},{"ItemType":"Contribution","ItemId":21341448,"MemberId":3995,"AttributedTo":"Nick Boles","Value":"Planning is a quasi-judicial process; it is a long-standing feature of the planning system that there is a right of appeal, just as there are with other local quasi-judicial decisions such as on licensing applications, gambling applications or parking fines.\r\n\r\nSince January 2008 there have been 83,507 Planning Appeal decisions for Portsmouth and 1,169,098 for the whole of Hampshire. An analysis of decisions by individual constituencies, such as Portsmouth South, is not available.\r\n\r\n<table class=\"hansardTable\"><caption><em>Portsmouth</em></caption><thead><tr><th></th><th><p><em>Allowed</em></p></th><th><p><em>Dismissed</em></p></th><th><p><em>Total</em></p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>7,048</p></td><td><p>13,936</p></td><td><p>20,984</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>6,251</p></td><td><p>12,096</p></td><td><p>18,347</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>5,228</p></td><td><p>10,579</p></td><td><p>15,807</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>5,193</p></td><td><p>9,982</p></td><td><p>15,175</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>4,622</p></td><td><p>8,572</p></td><td><p>13,194</p></td></tr></tbody></table>  <span id=\"4MC\" class=\"column-number\" data-column-number=\"4MC\"></span>\r\n\r\n<table class=\"hansardTable\"><caption><em>Hampshire</em></caption><thead><tr><th></th><th><p><em>Allowed</em></p></th><th><p><em>Dismissed</em></p></th><th><p><em>Total</em></p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>98,630</p></td><td><p>195,146</p></td><td><p>293,776</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>87,514</p></td><td><p>169,344</p></td><td><p>256,858</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>73,192</p></td><td><p>148,106</p></td><td><p>221,298</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>72,702</p></td><td><p>139,748</p></td><td><p>212,450</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>64,708</p></td><td><p>120,008</p></td><td><p>184,716</p></td></tr></tbody></table>\r\n\r\nThese figures show how the number of planning appeals received and allowed has fallen in the first year of the National Planning Policy Framework, refuting the suggestion of ‘planning by appeal'.\r\n\r\nThe correct answer should have been:","OrderInSection":2,"Timecode":null,"ExternalId":"14021031000010","HRSTag":"hs_Para","HansardSection":"1-1","UIN":null,"IsReiteration":false},{"ItemType":"Contribution","ItemId":21341449,"MemberId":3995,"AttributedTo":"Nick Boles","Value":"Planning is a quasi-judicial process; it is a long-standing feature of the planning system that there is a right of appeal, just as there are with other local quasi-judicial decisions such as on licensing applications, gambling applications or parking fines.\r\n\r\nSince <strong>April</strong> 2008 there have been <strong>140</strong> Planning Appeal decisions for Portsmouth and <strong>2,954</strong> for the whole of Hampshire. An analysis of decisions by individual constituencies, such as Portsmouth South, is not available.\r\n\r\n<table class=\"hansardTable\"><caption><em>Hampshire</em></caption><thead><tr><th><p><em><strong>Calendar year</strong></em></p></th><th><p><em>Allowed</em></p></th><th><p><em>Dismissed</em></p></th><th><p><em>Total</em></p></th><th><p><em><strong>% Allowed</strong></em></p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2008-09</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>301</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>521</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>822</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>37</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>232</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>387</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>619</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>37</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>181</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>337</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>518</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>35</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>208</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>367</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>575</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>36</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>161</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>259</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>420</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>38</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table>\r\n\r\n<table class=\"hansardTable\"><caption><em>Portsmouth</em></caption><thead><tr><th><p><em><strong>Calendar year</strong></em></p></th><th><p><em>Allowed</em></p></th><th><p><em>Dismissed</em></p></th><th><p><em>Total</em></p></th><th><p><em><strong>% Allowed</strong></em></p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2008-09</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>24</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>30</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>20</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>28</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>32</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>33</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>28</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>43</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>36</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>42</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table>\r\n\r\nThese figures show how the number of planning appeals received and allowed <strong>in Hampshire</strong> has fallen in the first year of the National Planning Policy Framework, refuting the suggestion of ‘planning by appeal’.","OrderInSection":3,"Timecode":null,"ExternalId":"14021031000054","HRSTag":"hs_Para","HansardSection":"1-1","UIN":null,"IsReiteration":false}],"ChildDebates":[]}