Pre-application advice is available to prospective developers. To help you assemble the likely information needed for any meeting which would benefit both developer and officers of the Council, we have provided a checklist of the likely areas for discussion.

Depending upon the type of development proposed, the site identified for possible opportunities and issues, the District Council has the expertise to advise you on what is likely to be needed to accompany any application to the authority for planning and associated consents. Such issues could be:

On any number of these issues you may be required to prepare supporting information to accompany an application. Without it your project could take longer to process. We will seek to add quality to any development proposed and advise if your scheme is unlikely to receive consent to save you time and money.

Our aim is to give advice and if necessary arrange meetings as soon as possible. For significant proposals that seek to provide regeneration schemes, leisure, large housing, commercial or industrial to provide wider community benefits we aim to provide a Development Team approach. Such service will give a single point of contact with all the different local authority services affecting the project. Initially this will be through the planning and regeneration team within the Council who will draw expertise from other services in the Council to give a co-ordinated response. This will save you time, effort and money.

You can contact Development Control to obtain specific advice and information depending upon the nature of the development proposed. Whoever you contact will also be in a good position to suggest and advise if a wider Development Team meeting would help the project forward.