Local planning authorities (LPAs) continue to improve the efficiency with which they handle planning applications, Planning Minister, Baroness Andrews announced.
Average performance across England is up nine percentage points for major applications, three percentage points for minor applications and two percentage points for ‘other’ types of applications in the year ending March 2007, compared to six months ago. In all, 86 per cent of LPAs met or surpassed the Government’s target to decide 60 per cent of major applications within 13 weeks in the year ending March 2007.
There are also many individual success stories with 109 LPAs showing an improvement in performance a number of whom decided 100 per cent of major decisions within the 13 week target.
Baroness Andrews said:
“I am delighted to announce that almost a third of all planning authorites have improved their performance in handling major applications over the last six months. Such applications are very important because of their impact on local places, and handling them efficiently has significant benefits both for the developer and for the wider economy.
I offer my warm congratulations to these authorities and would encourage those few who have still to meet the targets to learn from their example.”
Also published are the quarterly development control statistics for January to March 2007.
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Source: Communities and Local Government- 22/06/07 |
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