FOI request (FOIR-344214770)

Planning applications

Requested Wed 23 June 2021
Responded  Tue 02 November 2021

For each of the last five financial years, including as much of 2021/22 as you have data for, please could you tell me:

1. How many planning applications did the council decide? How many homes did these applications contain?

2. How many of those applications, representing how many homes, were approved? How many applications, representing how many homes, were rejected?

3. Of the rejections, how many were appealed by the applicant?

4. Of those appeals, how many were successful? How many unsuccessful? And how many have yet to be decided?

5. How much did these appeals cost the council? If possible, please break down into the council's own legal cost, the applicant's legal costs which the council was ordered to cover, and so on?

6. In addition to, and separately from, the costs covered in question 5, how much does the council estimate it needs to set aside/has set aside to cover the cost of appeals that have not yet been heard?

Response

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.

1. How many planning applications did the council decide?

Answer: This information can be found on our planning public access website (https://publicaccess.hastings.gov.uk/online-applications/) using the advanced search (Decision date can be searched)

How many homes did these applications contain?

Answer : This is not recorded in a way that can be extracted - the number of dwellings is written within the description of the application. The description is available for each application on our planning public access website - link provided above.

2. How many of those applications, representing how many homes, were approved?

Answer: This information about how many were approved can be found on our planning public access website (https://publicaccess.hastings.gov.uk/online-applications/) using the advanced search (The decision code can be selected) - the number of homes is not recorded in a way that can be extracted - the number of dwellings is written within the description of the application. The description is available for each application on our planning public access website.

How many applications, representing how many homes, were rejected?

Answer: We use the term refusal - This information can be found on our Planning Public access website (https://publicaccess.hastings.gov.uk/online-applications/) using the advanced search (The decision code can be selected) - the number of homes is not recorded in a way that can be extracted - the number of dwellings is written within the description of the application. The description is available for each application on our planning public access website.

3. Of the rejections, how many were appealed by the applicant?

Answer: We use the term refusal - This information can be found on our Planning Public access website (https://publicaccess.hastings.gov.uk/online-applications/) using the advanced search the appeal status can be searched,

4. Of those appeals, how many were successful? How many unsuccessful? And how many have yet to be decided?

Answer: This information can be found on our Planning Public access website (https://publicaccess.hastings.gov.uk/online-applications/) using the advanced search the different appeal statuses can be searched.

5. How much did these appeals cost the council? If possible, please break down into the council's own legal cost, the applicant's legal costs which the council was ordered to cover, and so on?

Answer:

a. 2018 - £425 no vat

b. 2019 - £500 plus vat

6. In addition to and separately from the costs covered in Q5, how much does the council estimate it needs to set aside/has set aside to cover the cost of appeals that have not yet been heard?

Answer: Information not held