Pre-application advice is available to the general public and to agents or development companies. This lets you get advice before submitting your planning application.

This is a 2-stage process that lets you find out:

1) Whether the principle is likely to be acceptable

2) Whether the detail and the design is likely to be acceptable

From the 1st July 2009 we will be charging for pre-application advice. This is to make sure that we can provide the best service and to stop the costs involved from being passed onto the general taxpayer.

We now have a procedure in place that you must follow in order to get pre-application advice.

Our aim is to give advice and if necessary arrange meetings. 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.

A development team will give a single point of contact with all the different council services affecting the project. To begin with this will be through the planning team within the Council, who will use expertise from other services to give a co-ordinated response. This will save you time, effort and money.

Downloads

Pre-app Procedure and Fees
Form and Checklist for Pre-application Advice