Airports: Planning Permission

Department for Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 17 March 2017.

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Photo of Iain Stewart Iain Stewart Conservative, Milton Keynes South

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many applications to open new general aviation airfields have been received by UK planning authorities in the last five years.

Photo of Gavin Barwell Gavin Barwell Minister of State (Department for Communities and Local Government) (Housing, Planning and London)

The information requested is not held by the Department.

The Department collects quarterly figures on the number of planning applications received by English local authorities. These data are not sufficiently granular to identify those relating to new general aviation airfields.

Planning is a devolved matter.

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