To ask the Minister for Infrastructure (i) for a list of planning applications under the remit of her Department that have yet to be determined; and (ii) how long each application has been awaiting a decision.

Data extracted from my Department’s Planning Portal shows the following list of live planning applications with my Department at 31 December 2019. This is taken from the latest published information.

Figures up until the end of March 2020 will be published on 2 July 2020.

My Department’s Strategic Planning Directorate is also continuing to process 3 other applications remitted back to the Department by the Courts [one in July 2018 and the other 2 in February 2019] following their original determination/approval.

You will note the extensive timescales taken to process some of these applications. The timescales reflect the inherent complexity and often controversial nature of some of these applications, the volume of information comprising the application, the level of representations received, the conducting of Inquiry and Hearings into the applications and the tendency for legal challenges to a number of these controversial proposals.