Planning guidelines

The Planning guidelines provide detailed guidance on a range of topics. When making decisions on applications, the Planning service has to consider the development plan (the Structure Plan and Local Plans). The policies in these plans tend to be quite broad so to make things clearer guidelines have been created. These are non-statutory, but are regarded as material considerations in the determination of planning applications.

The guidelines give clear advice about how proposals can be drawn up to comply with planning policy, and you should consult them before making a planning application.