Audit Scotland report finds planning reform has failed to speed up applications
September 15 2011
Despite a 29% drop in volume over the past six years the report, ‘Modernising the planning system’, found that the cost of processing each application had risen by 17%.
Between 2004 and 2010 the shortfall between these rising costs and declining income generated from fees widened from £6.7m to £20.8m.
John Baillie, Chair of the Accounts Commission, said: “The time taken to decide planning applications is not reducing and the gap between income and expenditure is widening and becoming increasingly unsustainable.”
The modernised planning system came into effect on August 3, 2009.
Income and applications have dropped - just as expenditure has risen
major applications have been disproportionately affected by the downturn
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1 Comment
#1 Posted by Auntie Nairn on 16 Sep 2011 at 14:27 PM
Is anyone really surprised by this? The norm seems to be a planning system understaffed, by under-educated 'planning technicians' who struggle to understand the most basic of schemes. No wonder the built environment in this country is in the state it is.
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