This page provides you with detailed guidance on what information you will need to include when submitting a planning application.
The Council's Validation Guidance Note (pdf) provides detailed advice and below you can download or print individual checklists for the different application types:
Householder
Full Application
Outline and Reserved Matters
| Outline planning application with all matters reserved |
| Outline planning application with some matters reserved |
| Application for approval of reserved matters following Outline approval |
Post Decision applications
| Application for removal or variation of a condition following grant of planning permission |
| Application for approval of details reserved by condition (DISA) (following shortly) |
| Non-material amendment (following shortly) |
Consent applications (advert, LB, etc)
| Listed Building consent for alterations, extension or demolition of a Listed Building |
| Relevant demolition application in a Conservation Area |
| Consent application to display an advertisement |
Lawful Development Certificates
| Lawful Development Certificate: Proposed use or development |
| Lawful Development Certificate: Existing use or operation/activity including those in breach of a planning condition |
| Lawful Development Certificate: Proposed works to a Listed Building (following shortly) |
Tree Works
| Tree works to trees subject to a tree preservation order (TPO) and/or notification of works to trees in a conservation area |
| Hedgerow Removal Notice |
Prior Notifications
Demolitions, telecommunications and Agricultural
Changes of use (to C3)
| Prior Notification for proposed change of use of agricultural building to a flexible use within shops, financial/professional services, restaurants and cafes, business, storage or distribution, hotels or assembly or leisure (following shortly) |
| Prior Notification for proposed change of use of building from Office (B1) to a dwelling house (C3) (following shortly) |
| Prior Notification for proposed change of use of agricultural building to a dwellinghouse (C3), and for associated operational development (following shortly) |
| Prior Notification for proposed change of use from storage or distribution buildings (B8) and any land within its curtilage to dwellinghouses (C3) (following shortly) |
| Prior Notification for proposed change of use from amusement arcades/centres and casinos, (sui generis uses) and any land within its curtilage to dwellinghouses (C3) (following shortly) |
| Prior Notification for proposed change of use from light industrial (B1(c)) and any land within its curtilage to dwellinghouses (C3) (following shortly) |
| Prior Notification for proposed change of use of a building from shops (A1), financial/professional services (A2), betting office, pay day loan shop, launderette or a mixed use combining use as a dwellinghouse with anything previously mentioned to a use falling within Class C3 (dwellinghouses) and for associated operational development (following shortly) |
Change of use (to state-funded school/nursery)
| Prior notification for proposed change of use to State-funded school or registered nursery (following shortly) |
| Prior Notification for proposed change of use of agricultural building to a State-funded school or registered nursery (following shortly) |
| Prior Notification for temporary school buildings on vacant commercial land and the use of that land as a state-funded school for up to 3 academic years (following shortly) |
Change of use (Others)
| Prior Notification for proposed change of use from shops (A1), financial/professional services (A2), betting officers, pay day loan shops and casinos (sui generis uses) to restaurants and cafes (A3) (following shortly) |
| Prior Notification for proposed change of use from shops (A1), financial/professional services (A2), betting officers, pay day loan shops and casinos (sui generis uses) to assembly and leisure uses (D2) (following shortly) |
| Prior Notification for temporary use of buildings or land for the purposes of commercial film-making and the associated temporary structures, works, plant or machinery required in connection with that use (following shortly) |
| Prior Notification for the installation, alteration or replacement of other solar photovoltaics (PV) equipment on the roofs on non-domestic buildings (up to a capacity of 1 Megawatt) (following shortly) |
| Prior Notification for development consisting of the erection or construction of a collection facility within the curtilage of a shop (following shortly) |