Planning Decisions

The Planning Committee meets monthly to determine planning applications. See our Meetings section which also gives links to information about your local elected Councillors and Parish representatives.

Notifying you of the decision

A decision notices will be issued and posted to the applicant or appointed agent. The notice will be accompanied by a clear explanation of the rights of appeal to the Planning Inspectorate if the council has refused permission or granted permission subject to conditions.

The Council seeks to achieve nationally set targets for how long it takes to make a decision on a planning application. For most applications this is an 8 week period from the date of the registration of the planning application.

Given these very tight deadlines, once a planning application is registered then it is likely that the decision will be made on the information submitted.  To this end the Council requires certain information depending on the natures and location of the application

Planning Officers may contact you or your agent for further information only if this information is:

• Fundamental to the decision;
• Can be dealt with in the target time identified in the initial acknowledgement letter.

Amendments suggested by you are unlikely to be accepted and will be returned.