Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 5 Rhagfyr 1973.
Is my hon. Friend aware that completions are being seriously delayed by delays in planning consent? It now takes on average, according to his own figures, 67 weeks to hear an appeal against a planning consent. When one adds to that the time it takes to get the planning application in, a house can be delayed for as much as two years. This is a serious and constructive point and it must have an effect on the figures if urgent action is not taken.