Planning pre-application advice

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The Council offers a pre application advice service to anyone wanting help with a development before the submission of a planning application.

The aim of our pre-application service is to provide responsive, consistent and timely advice that de-risks the application process and reduces the time taken to deal with your application through the formal decision making stage.

Pre-application advice will provide you with the following benefits:

• An understanding of how our policies will be applied to your proposal
• Identify the need for specialist input at an early stage e.g. for listed buildings, transportation, trees, landscape, noise, health, ecology, contaminated land or archaeology
• Assist in the preparation of proposals for formal submission, which, if you  follow our advice, should be handled more quickly and be more likely to result in a positive outcome
• Help to reduce the time that you or your professional advisors spend in  working up the proposals
• Identify those proposals that are completely unacceptable, so saving you the cost of pursuing a formal application.

How to make a request for pre application advice?

Householder Proposals -

To request householder pre-planning application advice please provide us with the filled-in Pre app advice householder 274kbform along with the relevant plans and the correct fee.

All Non-householder and Commercial Proposals -

To request non householder pre-planning application advice please provide us with the filled-in Pre application advice non householder 284kb, along with the relevant plans and the correct fee.

The Council will acknowledge receipt of your request and the fee and inform you who will be dealing with the enquiry and when you can expect to get a response.

• Frequently asked questions 22kb
• Pre application fee protocol 29kb
• Charging tariffs for pre application advice 27kb
• Forms

Last updated: 7 September 2011