Planning Permission: Appeals
Communities and Local Government
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2009

Anne Main (St Albans, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what criteria are applied in cases where he personally intervenes to fix a date for an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate.

Ian Austin (Minister of State (the West Midlands), Regional Affairs; Dudley North, Labour)
Procedural guidance on inquiries is on the Planning Portal website:
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/pins/procedural_guidance_planning_appeals.pdf
A Good Practice Advice Note on bespoke casework is also on the Planning Portal website:
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/pins/pins-gpa-5-2009_bespoke-casework.pdf
