FOI request for planning appeals information
Case reference FOI2025/00139
Received 30 April 2025
Published 16 May 2025
Request
Please could you provide me with the following: * The number of planning appeals the council lost between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023; 1 May 2023 and 30 April 2024; and 1 May 2024 and 30 April 2025. * The total sum of money spent preparing for the appeals in each of those periods. * The total sum of money paid out in cost awards for the appeals in each of those periods.
Response
Q1 - The number of planning appeals the council lost between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023; 1 May 2023 and 30 April 2024; and 1 May 2024 and 30 April 2025.
All information regarding the Councils planning appeal performance during these timeframes is available online here:
https://tunbridgewells.gov.uk/planning/applications/search
Q2 - The total sum of money spent preparing for the appeals in each of those periods.
The staff costs associated with preparing for appeals are covered by general department budgets other than where the Council has used external consultants to prepare evidence to help defend decisions.
Consultants fees during these periods:
2022/23 - £89,013.96
2023/24 - £0
2024/25 - £4,146.15
Q3 - The total sum of money paid out in cost awards for the appeals in each of those periods.
TWBC have had no costs awarded against the LPA in these periods
Documents
This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.