1. What was the council's planning department budget in total for each of the last five calendar (or financial) years (2017-2021)?
The following data is for the bulk of the planning team. We have kept separate the Customer Delivery Team and SDL team below to give more context to the information.
2017/18: £1,538,030
2018/19: £865,780
2019/20: £762,850
2020/21: £1,139,010
2021/22: £1,556,770

From 2018-2021 the Customer delivery team managed many officers involved in the application process, along with other duties that they had for services around the Council.
2018/19: Information not held. The go live period was 2018 so was part way through the year.
2019/20: £336,784
2020/21: £389,291

Salary budget for SDL team. Note the data only goes back to 2018/19 as this was when it was set up.
2018/19: £410,960
2019/20: £510,346
2020/21: £538,296
2021/22: £546,706