Please provide a breakdown of costs incurred by the Council in relation to Planning Appeals for each financial year from 2010/11 to the current date in 2025.
Specifically, I request the data be provided in a table format containing the following two categories:

1. The total amount spent by the Council on legal fees, external consultants, and administrative costs for defending planning appeals.

2. The total number of planning appeals defended by the Council (if an appeal crosses a financial year please include it in the same year as the costs were paid).

3. The total amount paid out to appellants (third parties) following a decision by the Planning Inspectorate that the Council acted "unreasonably" (Awards of Costs).

4. The total number of instances where costs were paid out to appellants (third parties) following a decision by the Planning Inspectorate that the Council acted "unreasonably" (Awards of Costs).

We do not report on this, we also do not hold or record financial or appeal data such that it can be ascertained without checking if unreasonable behaviour was cited.
Financial data is held for 7 years and our annual budget papers that are approved at council do not contain details of individual transactions – the general financial information would be of no use in identifying this specific data. This would require manually checking which would exceed the cost of compliance (Section 12).