Gaining Planning Permission

National Issue

The Planning Inspectorate is the government body responsible for:

- the processing of planning and enforcement appeals

- holding inquiries into local development plans

- listed building consent appeals

- advertisement appeals

- reporting on planning applications called in for decision by the Secretary of State or in Wales with the National Assembly for Wales

- examinations of development plan documents and statements of community involvement

- various compulsory purchase orders, rights of way cases; and cases arising from the Environmental Protection and Water Acts and the Transport and Works Act and other highways legislation are also dealt with.

The work is set in agreement with Department for Transport, the Department for Communities and Local Government and the National Assembly for Wales.

 

Local Government Issues

The Local Development Framework (LDF) is a non-statutory term used to describe a folder of documents, which includes all the local planning authority's local development documents. An LDF is comprised of:

- Development Plan Documents (which form part of the statutory development plan)

- Supplementary Planning Documents

The local development framework will also comprise of:
- the Statement of Community Involvement
- the Local Development Scheme
- the Annual Monitoring Report
any Local Development Orders or Simplified Planning Zones that may have been added