You may use our website regularly, but still find planning a maze of regulations which are hard to implement or explain to the community you serve. Our new website has updated tools to make your life easier.
- Improved planning application search tool, with quick switch between current and historic applications, makes it easier to find the documents you need.
- Sign up to our application update email service, which allows you to filter searches by parish or ward, saving time and printing.
- You can easily check which local policies apply to your area using our online policy mapping tool.
- To support everyone involved in the planning application process, we've made a simple step-by-step guide, for applicants and local people who want to comment on development proposals. We've included a detailed overview of the stages of planning decision making, to empower local campaigners and decision makers.
- If you'd like to promote greater public engagement and participation in the planning process, our introduction to local planning policy development and neighbourhood planning pages are tools designed to enable local residents to understand the issues and have their say.
- Because they give rise to such strong local feelings, we've created topic-orientated guides to common local policy concerns and constraints, such as sustainability, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation and ecology.