Essential maintenance

Some of our online forms will be unavailable from 5pm on Monday 20th October. The system will be back online by 9am on Thursday 23rd October. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Pre-application advice

We welcome and encourage discussions before a developer submits a planning application. These discussions can result in better quality applications and help speed up the decision making process after submission.

Pre-application advice should be sought from the relevant teams. We may require a fee for pre-application advice.

We also provide pre-application planning advice for mineral or waste applications. Find out more about the pre-application advice we offer.

District and borough councils provide pre-application advice:

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