Figures released by the Department for Communities and Local Government on local authority spending in England show that net current expenditure on planning and development fell from £1,652bn to £1,434bn between 2011/12 and 2012/13. This represented a fall of 14.2 per cent.
Other big reductions were highways and transport with expenditure dropping from £5,380bn to £4,868bn, a fall of 9.5 per cent.
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