FOI request (FOI-66628358)

We are conducting a nationwide piece of research into paragraph 55 housing and are looking to find information on the following two questions:

a) whether you have had any applications that have sought to use the Paragraph 55 policy as the main justification for approval (or indeed if this has in fact been suggested by your officers as a possible route.

b) whether you have had any successful (or refused) paragraph 55 applications. Please give planning references.

It would great for the dataset to be able to have a complete set of responses so we would welcome your time in responding. In the interest of transparency we will be publishing all responses from each planning authorities with the Architect's Journal, including where there has been no response.

Please could you reply to this email leaving 'P55' as the start of the subject line, as the emails will be filed automatically using this code. If you do not have any open countryside in your district, that would be useful knowledge too.