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I don't think the sort of breakdown of the stats you want is actually available. The stats that are available suggest that nothing unusual is going on in regard to the decisions which are being made. That's my only point really.

Sorry yes kept to minors and others as they make up the vast majority of the Planning depts output (i.e. 98%). If Majors are of concern there are figures available for those too. Government's Table P152- BHCC determined 75 Major applications over a 24 month period. In this time 8 appeals were...

I agree they have lots of problems, this isn't one of them.

I agree a proportion of appeals are allowed. They usually relate to balanced matters so I'm not surprised. With 33% allowed nationally this all seems par for the course. If something unusual was going on at BHCC I would have thought the statistics would reveal this, but they appear to suggest...

Hope this helps: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/planning-inspectorate-statistics National average for 2015 was 33%. Not sure I can swallow 7% above national average as 'a long chalk'. The percentage allowed is more relevant than the amount allowed. If a council who determined 10,000...

What is the national average?

The facts don't back this up. See table P154 on this page: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics Of the 3774 applications determined by BHCC, 146 were allowed on appeal, which is about 4%. Only a small proportion of decisions are...

Here's the image of the proposed hotel from the Argus article:

Recommendation is to REFUSE. http://present.brighton-hove.gov.uk/Published/C00000118/M00005779/$$Supp19873dDocPackPublic.pdf