Question reference: S5W-10851
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 21 August 2017 Registered interest
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Current status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 6 September 2017
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-09491 by Kevin Stewart on 7 June 2017, what information it has regarding how many complaints about unauthorised waste and recycling sites have been (a) raised and (b) investigated by Aberdeenshire Council in each of the last 10 years; how many of these (i) were upheld and (ii) remain unresolved; what the average time taken was to resolve a complaint, and how many resulted in (A) retrospective planning applications and (B) fines, broken down by the average size of fine.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold this information.
Such information as it holds on Aberdeenshire Council’s planning enforcement activity for the last ten years can be viewed at its Planning statistics web page: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Planning/Publications