AQW 22176/17-22
Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford
Tabled Date: 10/09/2021
Answered On Date: 27/09/2021
Priority Written: No
Question:
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to confirm how many weeks the Northern Ireland Environment Agency has taken to provide a statutory consultee response to planning applications for (i) 2019; (ii) 2020 and (iii) 2021 to date, broken down by council area.
Answer:
Most responses made by the Department to planning application consultations are a single collated response covering all relevant Departmental divisions rather than individual responses from each division. As such response rates are reported at a Departmental level. The table below provides the average number of weeks the Agency has taken to provide a statutory consultee response to planning applications for the reporting periods: 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019; 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 and 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 broken down by Council area. The response rate for 1 April 2021 to 31 August 2021 has also been provided. Council | 2018/19 Average Number of Weeks | 2019/20 Average Number of Weeks | 2020/21 Average Number of Weeks | 01/04/2021-31/08/2021 Average Number of Weeks | Causeway Coast & Glens | 2.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 1.6 | Mid & East Antrim | 3.6 | 5.6 | 5.5 | 2.4 | Antrim & Newtownabbey | 3.3 | 4.0 | 5.8 | 2.1 | Belfast | 2.2 | 2.9 | 5.4 | 2.1 | Lisburn & Castlereagh | 1.8 | 2.2 | 2.9 | 1.1 | Ards & North Down | 2.6 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 1.7 | Newry, Mourne & Down | 3.6 | 3.5 | 5.7 | 2.0 | Armagh, Banbridge, Craigavon | 3.3 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 1.9 | Mid Ulster | 4.3 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 2.3 | Fermanagh & Omagh | 4.5 | 5.8 | 7.2 | 1.9 | Derry & Strabane | 3.7 | 4.8 | 6.1 | 2.2 |
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