PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Planning: Fees and Charges (19 February 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the change in (a) speed of decision making and (b) overall performance of local authority planning departments since they were permitted to increase planning fees in January 2018.

Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)

The Department is continuously monitoring the speed and quality of local planning authority decision making through our planning application statistics, which are updated on a quarterly basis. We are also working closely with the Local Government Association and the Royal Town Planning Institute to further understand local planning authority resourcing and performance following the introduction of the fee increase.

Answered by:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
27 February 2019