Question follow-through · 91909
Housing: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, How many housing development applications refused by local authorities have had decisions subsequently been overturned by planning inspectors in each year since 2015.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 18 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 24 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
18 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, How many housing development applications refused by local authorities have had decisions subsequently been overturned by planning inspectors in each year since 2015.
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Nov 2025
Answer published
The table below shows housing development applications refused by local planning authorities and subsequently overturned on appeal, as well as total housing development appeal decisions made by the Planning Inspectorate between the years 2015 and 2025: Ye...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Local Government Finance
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