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Making an application
Publication Year
2025
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Comprises planning practice guidance focusing on making a planning application. Covers: types of application; who the application should be submitted to; validation requirements; application form; national information requirements; plans and drawings; ownership certificate and agricultural land declaration; design and access statement; outline planning applications; applications subject to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA); local information requirements; receipt of an application; changes to the description of development; delay in the validation of an application; dealing with 'repeat applications' for development that has already been refused; changes after validation of an application; and the planning register.
Document History
Last updated: 12 May 2025 - Amended paragraphs 013 and 014 following updates to Crown Development guidance. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/making-an-application and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 6 March 2014.
Publisher Information
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.
2 Marsham Street
London
MHCLG
UK
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-and-local-government
