New Clause 31 - Enforcement of planning controls
Planning and Compulsory Purchase (Re-committed) Bill
3:00 pm
Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh, Conservative)
The Minister mentioned a set of statistics that purport that the results of retrospective planning applications are broadly on a par with those of other planning applications. Surely, however, retrospective applications are overwhelmingly concentrated in the relatively small number of rural district areas, in which case, in net terms, the bulk of them are concentrated in the areas with the least financial resources to deal with them?