Planning (Development Control)

Search planning applications

• Search current and historical planning cases (including the weekly list)
• Section 106 Planning Obligations

Planning contacts, service and performance

• Contact Planning to find out more about planning or you have a question
• Send us a compliment or complaint

Planning consultation, comments and applications

• Guidance on valid reasons to make an objection
• How to object about or support an application
• How we consult over planning matters
• Get copies of planning applications
• Comment online or by post about a current planning application

News and events

Changes to the Permitted Development Rights for houses.

Planning policies - environmental policies

• The Local Development Framework will be the successor to the Unitary Development Plan
• Supplementary Planning Guidance and other design guidance

Planning Committee meetings

• Planning Committee agendas, officers reports, and minutes
• How the Planning Committee works (video)

Planning Constraints

Information about planning constraints

Planning for private houses, flats and maisonettes

• Planning Application Forms
• Pre-application advice for household applications
• Extending your house
• Permitted Development rights and withdrawal of rights under an Article 4 Direction
• Submit planning applications online and the fees that are chargeable
• Submitting electronic files with planning applications(pdf, 41KB)
• Convert CAD files to scalable PDFs (Planning Portal website)

Planning decisions

• How planning decisions are made
• Conditions imposed and informatives given in those decisions

Planning appeals

• Making a planning appeal
• The weekly list of appeals made and decided

Planning enforcement

• Read our planning enforcement policies
• Report an alleged breach of planning control online or in writing
• Copies of the last ten years of enforcement notices

Planning advertisement control

• Adverts that do not and adverts that do require planning permission
• Adverts deemed to have consent
• Illegal advertising

Planning and business

• Pre-application advice - chargeable for developers
• Applying for planning permission to extend, build or change the use of premises