Planning Services Statistical report for 2025

​​​​Request 827537023

The Planning Services Statistical report for 2025 gives figures for planning permissions for new homes from 2022 to 2025 and for dwelling completed for 2024 and 2025. Please provide figures for both variables since 2015.

Response

The information relating to planning permissions for new homes is exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as this information is accessible through the on-line planning register on www.gov.je. The register can be accessed using the following link.

https://www.gov.je/citizen/planning/pages/planning.aspx​

Searches relating to specified periods, e.g. month, can be carried out within the planning register and all applications are marked major or minor. The register also allows you to view approved and pending cases.

The Scheduled Public Authority (SPA) does not hold data relating to the number of Dwellings completed. Therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Further information is available on www.gov.je using the link below:

Core evidence base documents for the Island Plan Review 2021 bridging plan​

Articles applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.

Internal Review Request

I would like the response to be reviewed.

The response is deliberately unhelpful. I have asked for a run of basic statistics which the Department must have. Instead I have been referred to the Planning Portal. I have spent time going through this and cannot see how the information can be extracted. I suggest that the reviewer attempts to do so.

Internal Review Response

This internal review has been conducted by an official of appropriate seniority who has not been involved in the original decision. As part of their review, they will be expected to understand the reasons behind the original response, impartially determine whether the response should be revised, and how so, considering the request and the information held, any relevant exemptions, or other relevant matters under the Law.

The Internal Review Panel was asked to review the original response and confirm the following: Does the FOI request relate to a body to which the Law applies, or information held by a body covered by the Law?

If the answer is no, all the other questions are not applicable. Further questions if above is a yes:

i. Was the right information searched for and reviewed?

ii. Was the information supplied appropriately?

iii. Was information appropriately withheld in accordance with the articles applied and were the public interest test/ prejudice test properly applied?

Following discussion, it was agreed by the Panel that the decision was upheld.

The panel agrees that the information disclosed in the original response, which links to the Core evidence base for the Bridging Island Plan, is correct, however, to assist, the link to further relevant information, which are detailed within the Assessment of Housing Supply Methodology, are now available below:

Strategic Housing​​