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Planning

Apply for planning permission, planning applications, payments and fees, planning policy, the Local Development Plan, comments and objections, planning enforcement, permitted development.

Make a planning application: step by step

How to apply for planning permission, including what does and does not need planning permission, our pre-application planning service, how to apply, decisions and appeals.

Planning policy

Planning policies, including the Local Development Plan and planning guidance.

Planning enforcement

What planning enforcement involves, how we enforce breaches of planning and how to report a planning breach and unauthorised building work.

Permitted development rights

What is covered by permitted development rights, agriculture and forestry, minor works, changes of building and land classes.

Planning services and standards

How we monitor and seek to improve our services and standards, including our customer charter, our planning enforcement charter and our planning performance framework.