Planning application validation
We want to help you submit applications with all the information we need to assess them. If an application is submitted without the required information, it will not be valid and we will not be able to process it.
Before submitting an application you should make sure that the accompanying information is sufficient for the purposes of validation. Please read the planning validation guidance below, which provides advice on both national and local validation requirements. To assist us with the validation and decision-making process, we request that an application is accompanied by a schedule or list of submitted documents.
If you have any questions, please submit an Enquiry Form. We do not charge for this service but please note, if you are seeking advice as whether planning permission is required or likely to be granted, then a fee is payable.
After checking you have all the required documentation, please make a planning (or related) application using the national standard forms, which may be found and submitted electronically via the Planning Portal.
If submitting on paper, one original copy must be supplied. Copies of the forms are available below to download and complete and all forms must be signed and dated.
Application validation guidance (PDF, 31 pages, 437kb)
Validation checklists for application forms are available below
- Conversion of agricultural buildings to dwellings under permitted development (PDF, 4 pages, 149kb)
- Pre-application planning and listed building advice (PDF, 4 pages, 184kb)
- Householder application for planning permission (PDF, 3 pages, 112kb)
- Application for outline or full planning permission (PDF, 6 pages, 153kb)
- Application for approval of reserved matters (PDF, 2 pages, 94kb)
- Application for listed building consent (PDF, 3 pages, 117kb)
- Application for advertisement consent (PDF, 1 page, 85kb)
- Application for lawful development certificate (PDF, 2 pages, 88kb)
- Application for prior notification of proposed development by telecommunications code system operators (PDF, 2 pages, 112kb)
- Application for prior notification of agricultural or forestry development (2 pages, 89kb)
- Application for tree works: trees subject to a Tree Preservation Order or trees in a Conservation Area (PDF, 1 page, 98kb)
- Application for approval of details reserved by condition (PDF, 1 page, 85kb)
- Application for removal or variation of a condition following the grant of planning permission (Section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990) (PDF, 1 page, 86kb)
- Application for hedgerow removal notice (PDF, 1 page, 84kb)
- Application to modify or discharge a Section 106 planning obligation (Section 106A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990) (PDF, 1 page, 84kb)
