Planning Permission and Applications

New! Planning Explorer
View planning applications online.

*Welcome to the Development Control pages, we hope you find this information useful and we welcome your comments.

These pages will be of help to both householders who are planning extensions and also to businesses and developers.

These pages describe how to make a planning application and give details of what information is required from applicants.

Planning Portal planningportal.gov.uk.

Potential applicants can now submit planning applications to us online.

They describe how we process a planning application and how the public can make representations on planning applications.

You can also view details of recent decisions.

There are also pages that deal with the enforcement of planning and building control.