Procedural guide: planning appeals - England

Publication Year

2026

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Procedure for planning, householder development, minor commercial, listed building, advertisement and discontinuance notice appeals in England.

Document History

Last updated: 4 February 2026 - Information about the How to guides and the Managed Appeal Service updated. Added information on landowner requirements and expanded the section on the appellant’s statement of case (section 12.2.3). Also amended the inquiry timetables so that the timing of the press notice is now in line with the Inquiry Rules. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/planning-appeals-procedural-guide/procedural-guide-planning-appeals-england 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 April 2015.

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