Planning

Town and Country Planning legislation is divided into two areas, Planning Control and Planning Policy.

The Planning Control team - deals principally with development proposals from pre-application discussions, formal applications and planning enforcement matters. Using the options above you can find out how to make a planning application, how to comment on an existing planning application, about whether planning permission is required and how to make a complaint about unauthorised development.

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The Planning Policy team - deals with planning policy regarding future development, allocations and the Development Plan. The Development Plan is a strategic framework that guides land use planning for the area and is used to help determine decisions on planning applications. The Development Plan consists of the (new) Local Plan and the Saved Local Plan.