Written question asked by Baroness Teather (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 18 July 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 20 July 2006. It was answered by Meg Munn (Labour) on Monday, 24 July 2006 on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Planning (London)

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many planning enforcement notices were issued in each London borough in each year since 1997.

Answer

The number of planning enforcement notices issued in each London borough in each year since 1997 is presented in the following table:

Formal enforcement notices issued by London borough councils 1997 to 2005
Council name	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
City of London	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Barking and Dagenham	9	5	1	5	14	15	20	12	16
Barnet	51	36	38	47	42	27	53	67	97
Bexley	24	1	15	5	10	4	6	9	15
Brent	71	64	119	103	85	104	101	117	157
Bromley	123	128	105	105	87	101	65	111	115
Camden	64	67	73	105	62	64	41	47	27
Croydon	23	19	32	11	25	30	13	14	42
Ealing	11	39	26	30	44	46	31	59	46
Enfield	46	40	42	29	27	14	18	64	88
Greenwich	19	14	54	47	38	28	34	22	41
Hackney	0	9	19	0 (3)	n/a (0)	9	24	16	0
Hammersmith and Fulham	30	25	65	48	54	45	39	52	31
Haringey	21	44	37	50	54	73	65	66	91
Harrow	43	21	27	9	13	22	13	8	10
Havering	17	14	13	8	8	11	16	22	20
Hillingdon	10	12	7 (2)	(0)	7 (3)	0	0	0	0 (3)
Hounslow	9	34	43	54	30	56	51	8	38
Islington	32	33	21	17	49	94	40	27	51
Kensington and Chelsea	58	53	53	45	34	53	66	84	38 (3)
Kingston upon Thames	13	9	10 (3)	12	20	17	23	36	13
Lambeth	12	41	18	21	32	19	31	26	43
Lewisham	7	6	2 (1)	7 (3)	3	7	18	26	28
Merton	5 (3)	5	0	8	7	7	22	20	16
Newham¹	53	25	24	9	1	25	18	14	73
Redbridge	35	24	55	26	21	19	0	1	10
Richmond upon Thames	14	31	10	22	21	33	39	17	58
Southwark¹	12	15	5	6	4	7	9	26	9
Sutton	13	2 (3)	14	11	9	10	20	11	19
Tower Hamlets¹	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Waltham Forest	28	28	39	0	27	31	4	36	45
Wandsworth	8	7	1	5	10	8	19	40	15
City of Westminster	75	37	67	102	84	104	104	164	156
Total	938	889	1,036	947	922	1,083	1,004	1,222	1,408
n/a = Not available.
¹ These councils included areas within London Dockland Development Corporation, however the statistics exclude enforcement within the LDDC. The LDDC served no enforcement notice during 1997 or 1998 when the LDDC was wound up.
Note:
The number in parenthesis indicates how many quarters were reported.
Source:
DCLG General Development Control Return, PS1.

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