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- Types of Planning Application
- Pre-application advice
- Planning fees in England
- Planning application timescales
- Minor or major planning application?
- Settlement boundaries
- Local plans
- Prior approval
- Section 62A applications
- Planning Guarantee
- Fallback position in planning
Application types, certificates and specialist consents
- Householder planning application
- Full planning permission
- Outline planning permission
- Reserved matters
- Permission in Principle
- Crown development application
- Retrospective planning permission
- Certificate of Lawfulness: existing use or development (CLEUD)
- Certificate of Lawfulness: proposed use or development
- Certificate of Lawfulness of Proposed Works
- Listed Building Consent
- Conservation area demolition
- Listed buildings at risk
- Advertisement Consent
- Hazardous Substances Consent
- Scheduled Monument Consent
- Certificate of Immunity from Listing
- High hedges
- Hedgerow Removal Notice
- EIA screening and scoping
Preparing and validating an application
- Planning drawings
- Block, site and location plans
- Planning statements
- Design and access statements
- Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA)
- Flood Risk Assessment (FRA)
- Heritage Impact Assessment
- Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)
- Landscape character assessment
- Ownership certificates
- Validation requirements
- Local validation lists in England
- Validation disputes
- Ecological survey calendar
- Ecological appraisal (PEA and EcIA)
- Green infrastructure
- Statutory consultees
- Diverting a public footpath or road
Consultation, decision-making and material considerations
- Planning officer site visit
- Publicity and neighbour consultation
- Planning application reconsultation: when is it required?
- How to support a planning application
- How to object to a planning application
- What is a material consideration?
- What is not a material consideration?
- Planning committees and the National Scheme of Delegation
- Planning register: what councils must publish
- Planning officer reports: reasons, committees and bias
- 45-degree rule for extensions
- Noise in planning applications
After permission: conditions, amendments and implementation
Other Planning Application Sections
- Making an application
- Planning Applications Index
- Types of Planning Application
- Request a fee proposal
- Planning Fees in 2026
- Why use a planning consultant?
- Pre-application: what is it?
- What are settlement boundaries?
- What are local plans?
- What is Permitted Development (PD)?
- Changes of use under PD
- What is Prior Approval
- Section 62A applications
- Crown development application
- Major or Minor Planning?
- During the application
- How long for planning?
- Planning officer site visit
- Planning officer reports
- 45-degree rule for extensions
- Neighbour Consultation
- Planning application reconsultation
- Statutory consultees
- Planning committees and delegation
- Planning register: what councils publish
- Validation requirements
- Ownership certificates
- Local Validation lists in England
- Validation Dispute
- Divert a public footpath or road
- Plans, reports & assessments
- Planning Drawings
- Location & site plans
- Design and access statement
- Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA)
- EIA screening and scoping
- Flood Risk Assessment (FRA)
- Heritage Impact Assessment
- Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)
- Landscape character assessment
- Planning statement
- Ecological survey calendar
- Ecological appraisal (PEA and EcIA)
- Green infrastructure
- Noise assessments
- Decision making & after a decision
- Conditions - what are they?
- Discharge of conditions
- Varying or discharging Listed Building Consent conditions
- S73 - variation of conditions
- Non-material Amendment
- Making planning extant
- Abandonment of use
- Planning Guarantee
- Reverting to a previous lawful use
- How to object to a planning application
- How to support a planning application
- What is a material consideration?
- Fallback position in planning
- What is not a material consideration?
Planning Applications Index Page Updated: 29th August 2026