Owl thinks the third question is most interesting – where he asks about fees paid by developers. Why “developers” rather than “people” or “applicants” or “homeowners”?

Just who is he representing? Local residents or developer pals?

1. To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of retrospective planning applications to local councils in (a) Devon and (b) the UK in the last five years.

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2016-09-02.44219.h&s=speaker%3A11265#g44219.q0

2. To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of the cost of a retrospective planning application is covered by the (a) applicant and (b) local authority.

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2016-09-02.44220.h&s=speaker%3A11265#g44220.q0

3. To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to change the proportion of the cost of retrospective planning applications currently paid by developers.

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2016-09-02.44221.h&s=speaker%3A11265#g44221.q0

NB The answers from the Secretary of State are pretty useless!