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Summary

The latest national statistics on Development Control Statistics, England 2007-08 were released under the auspices of the UK Statistics Authority on 29 August 2008.

This publication presents annual statistics for 2007-08 on development control at national, regional and local planning authority level. The statistics are shown in a mixture of maps, charts, and tables. Historic data are included for comparison where appropriate.

The statistics in this publication are based on information from 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008 reported to Communities and Local Government as at 27 June 2008.

Key points from the latest release are:

District level planning applications and decisions

In 2007/08:

• authorities undertaking district level planning activity received 649,000 planning applications and decided 596,000 applications; an increase of 1 and 2 per cent respectively when compared with the previous year;
• 82 per cent of applications decided were granted; unchanged when compared with 2006-07;
• 71 per cent of planning decisions on major applications were made within 13 weeks, 28 percentage points higher than in 2002-03 and unchanged when compared with 2006-07;
• 50 per cent of all decisions were for applications made by householders whilst decisions on dwellings accounted for 13 per cent.

Enforcement

• district level planning authorities issued 5,565 enforcement notices; an increase of 1 per cent compared with last year and served 5,039 planning contravention notices; the lowest since 2004-05.

County Matters applications and decisions

In 2007-08:

• county planning authorities received 1,816 applications for 'county matters' developments and made 1,496 decisions; these represent a 1 per cent increase and a 5 per cent decrease respectively when compared with 2006-07;
• 70 per cent of decisions were for waste developments and 24 per cent for minerals sites; the proportion of decisions on waste developments remains unchanged whilst those for minerals saw a marginal increase of 1 per cent when compared with last year;
• 21 per cent of 'county matters' planning decisions were made within 8 weeks and 61 per cent within 13 weeks; and
• 1,608 decisions were made on applications defined by Article 21 and 39 were issued under the review of mineral planning permissions.

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