Determining a planning application
Publication Year
2026
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Comprises planning practice guidance focusing on planning performance and decision making. Covers: time periods for determining a planning application; making decisions on applications for planning permission; who makes a planning decision in the local planning authority; and who the local planning authority must notify once a decision has been made on a planning application.
Document History
Last updated: 8 April 2026 - Amended paragraphs 022 and 024 following publication of The Town and Country Planning (Consultation) (England) Direction 2026. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/determining-a-planning-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.
