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<p>The Planning Court was established in 2014 and has greatly increased the speed
in which planning cases are dealt with.</p><p>A dedicated cadre of lawyers and judiciary
have been appointed to deal expediently with all significant planning cases.</p><p>The
Criminal Courts and Justice Act 2015 introduced a permission stage in applications
for statutory review, to remove unmeritorious statutory challenges to planning decisions
as early as possible.</p><p>Current statistical data shows that the average time taken
for a planning case to be dealt with in the Planning Court has reduced from 46.9 weeks
in February 2014 to 25.9 weeks in March 2016.</p>
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