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Written Question · S2W-18518 · Session 2

How many agreements under section 75 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 have been signed by planning authorities in each …

Answered Asked by Rob Gibson SNP Lodged 17 Aug 2005

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many agreements under section 75 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 have been signed by planning authorities in each year from 1999 to 2005 and for what purposes such agreements were concluded.

The answer

Answered by Johann Lamont on 13 Sep 2005 · 27 days after it was lodged, on time

The following table shows the aggregated data received from planning authorities through their statistical returns and gives the numbers of planning applications and other consents determined where there was associated work on a Section 75 agreement. To put the figures in some context we have also included the number of planning applications and consents determined during the same period. Information on how many agreements have been signed and for what purposes such agreements were concluded is not held centrally.
Completion by planning authorities of the statistical return is voluntary. Therefore there are some incomplete/missing returns.
Table: Planning Applications Determined Where there was an Associated S75 Agreement
Financial Year
| No. of planning applications and consents determined
| No. of S75 agreements associated with planning applications

April 1999 to March 2000
| 43,600
| 223

April 2000 to March 2001
| 41,626
| 184

April 2001 to March 2002
| 43,552
| 188

April 2002 to March 2003
| 48,003
| 223

April 2003 to March 2004
| 52,201
| 242

April 2004 to March 2005
| 55,701
| 280

In the Official Report

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