Planning Applications

Development Management - Planning Applications and Decisions

The Planning legislation exists to safeguard and enhance the environment, and to ensure that conflicting pressures for land use are determined with the community's best interests in mind. In doing so planning deals with proposals for all developments across the island. It tries to achieve the right balance between encouraging developments which provides homes, jobs and services for the community and protecting the special features of the towns, villages and countryside.

The proper consideration of planning applications constitutes a significant part of the work undertaken by Planning.

• Do you need Planning Approval?
  levels of development which can be done without Planning Approval
  You can make certain types of minor changes to your house without needing to apply for planning approval. These are called 'permitted development rights'.

• Pre-application Planning Advice
  To help you with your planning application you can contact us for pre-application discussions.

• Planning & Building Advice
  Useful advice on a variety of topics

• Making a Planning Application 
  Find out if you need planning approval, what sort, and how to apply.

• How We Decide Planning Applications 
  A step by step guide to the process after an application has been submitted

• Planning Committee Meetings 
  Details of meetings and public speaking arrangements

• Find Applications and Decisions
  planning services available online
  View the status and details of planning applications, officer reports and decisions.

• Appeal Against a Planning Decision
  Find out how to appeal against a planning decision and take part in the appeal process.

• Planning Enforcement – investigating planning breaches
  Sometimes work is started without relevant approval. We can investigate these cases and take action where clear harm is being caused