Nick Boles corrected the Commons record on Planning Permission: Hampshire
Nick Boles made the correction and printed in Hansard's Written Corrections on 10 February 2014. The correction replaced 12 figures (1,169,098, 10,579, 12,096, 120,008, 13,194, 13,936) with 12 figures (140, 161, 181, 2,954, 208, 232). Altogether 130 words differ between the two versions.
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many planning appeals have resulted in local authority decisions being overturned by the planning inspector in (a) Portsmouth South constituency and (b) Hampshire in each of the last five years. Letter of correction from Nick Boles: An error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Portsmouth South (Mr Hancock) on 17 December 2013. The full answer given was as follows:
Original and corrected words
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| Planning is a quasi-judicial process; it is a long-standing feature of the planning system that there is a right of appeal, just as there are with other local quasi-judicial decisions such as on licensing applications, gambling applications or parking fines. Since | Dismissed | Total | | | 2009 | | | 2010 | | | 2011 | | | | | | | Dismissed | Total | | | 2009 | | | 2010 | | | 2011 | | | | | | These figures show how the number of planning appeals received and allowed has fallen in the first year of the National Planning Policy Framework, refuting the suggestion of ‘planning by The correct answer should have been: | Planning is a quasi-judicial process; it is a long-standing feature of the planning system that there is a right of appeal, just as there are with other local quasi-judicial decisions such as on licensing applications, gambling applications or parking fines. Since April 2008 there have been 140 Planning Appeal decisions for Portsmouth and 2,954 for the whole of Hampshire. An analysis of decisions by individual constituencies, such as Portsmouth South, is not available. Hampshire Calendar year | Allowed | Dismissed | Total | % Allowed 2008-09 | 301 | 521 | 822 | 37 2009-10 | 232 | 387 | 619 | 37 2010-11 | 181 | 337 | 518 | 35 2011-12 | 208 | 367 | 575 | 36 2012-13 | 161 | 259 | 420 | 38 Portsmouth Calendar year | Allowed | Dismissed | Total | % Allowed 2008-09 | 6 | 24 | 30 | 20 2009-10 | 9 | 19 | 28 | 32 2010-11 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 33 2011-12 | 12 | 16 | 28 | 43 2012-13 | 15 | 21 | 36 | 42 These figures show how the number of planning appeals received and allowed in Hampshire has fallen in the first year of the National Planning Policy Framework, refuting the suggestion of ‘planning by appeal’. |
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| Read from | https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/debates/debate/14021031000003.json |
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| Date read | 15 October 2026 |
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