The Planning Inspectorate - Wales

Forms

The forms on this page are only valid for appeals in Wales - for information on how to appeal in England, please visit the England section of our site.

Further information on how to use these forms can be found on our Publications page. If you require help or a form in a different format, please contact our Customer Support Unit.

The following forms are available:

Form title: Planning Appeal Form (S78)
Description: Use this form if your planning application has been: refused, not decided within the appropriate period (usually 8 weeks), or granted subject to conditions to which you object. Use it also if you application for approval or reserved matters has been refused or granted subject to conditions to which you object. Or any other matter required by a condition attached to a previous planning permission has been refused.
Formats:
Planning Appeal Form (S78), PDF 82KB

Form title: Site Ownership Certificate
Description: You may need to refer to these when completing the planning appeal form. They explain about the four different types of certificates and include a copy of the notice that you may need to serve on the owners of the site or publish in a newspaper.
Formats:
Guidance Notes for the completion of site ownership certificates (Planning Appeal) (PDF Format 27KB)
Guidance Notes for the completion of site ownership certificates (Planning Appeal) (Word Format 62KB)

Form title: Advertisement Appeal Form
Description: Should also be used for appeals against the service of a Discontinuance Notice
Formats:
Advertisement Appeal Form PDF 68KB

Form title: Appeal Questionnaire - Enforcement and Listed Building/Conservation Area Enforcement appeal (S39 & S174)
Description: For use by local planning authorities in enforcement appeals. The questionnaire provides vital information relating to the appeal.
Formats:
Appeal Questionnaire - Enforcement and Listed Building/Conservation Area Enforcement appeal (S39 & S174), PDF 14KB
Appeal Questionnaire - Enforcement and Listed Building/Conservation Area Enforcement appeal (S39 & S174), Word 42.5KB

Form title: Appeal Questionnaire - Planning and Listed building appeals (S78 & S20)
Description: For use by local planning authorities in planning and listed building/conservation appeals. The questionnaire provides vital information relating to the appeal.
Formats:
Appeal Questionnaire - Planning and Listed building appeals (S78 & S20), PDF 19KB

Form title: Certificate of lawful use or development Appeal Form (S195)
Description: Use this form if your application for a lawful development certificate has been refused, refused in part, or not decided within the appropriate period (usually 8 weeks)
Formats:
Certificate of lawful use or development Appeal Form (S195), PDF 66KB

Form title: Conservation Area Purchase Notice - Following Confirmation of Opposed Revocation or Modification Order (S32 & S74b)
Description: Use this form if you want to serve a Conservation Area Purchase Notice on the council following the confirmation of opposed revocation or a Modification order
Formats: Conservation Area Purchase Notice - Following Confirmation of Opposed Revocation or Modification Order (S32 & S74b), Word 29KB
Conservation Area Purchase Notice - Following Confirmation of Opposed Revocation or Modification Order (S32 & S74b) pdf 20.7 KB

Form title: Conservation Area Purchase Notice - Following Refusal or Conditional Grant of Conservation Area Consent (S32 & S74b)
Description: Use this form if you want to serve a Conservation Area Purchase Notice on the council following their refusal or conditional grant of Conservation Area consent
Formats:
Conservation Area Purchase Notice - Following Refusal or Conditional Grant of Conservation Area Consent (S32 & S74b), Word 25KB
Conservation Area Purchase Notice - Following Refusal or Conditional Grant of Conservation Area Consent (S32 & S74b) pdf 20.8 KB

Form title: Conservation Area Purchase Notice - Following Unopposed Revocation or Modification Order (S32 & S74b)
Description: Use this form if you want to serve a Conservation Area purchase Notice on the council following an unopposed Revocation or Modification Order
Formats:
Conservation Area Purchase Notice - Following Unopposed Revocation or Modification Order (S32 & S74b), Word 25KB
Conservation Area Purchase Notice - Following Unopposed Revocation or Modification Order (S32 & S74b) pdf 20.7 KB

Form title: Enforcement Notice Appeal (S174)
Description: Use this form if you have been served with an enforcement notice. (Please note there is a separate form for listed building/conservation area notices)
Formats:
Enforcement Notice Appeal (S174), PDF 69KB

Form title: High Hedges appeal form
Description: Use this appeal form if you are appealing against the issue of a remedial notice or against the decision of a council not to deal with a complaint against a high hedge.
Formats: High Hedges appeal form in PDF 33KB
High Hedges appeal form in Word 86KB

Form title: Listed Building/Conservation Area Enforcement Notice Appeal (S39)
Description: Use this form if you have been served with an enforcement notice relating to a listed building, or the notice relates to the demolition of an unlisted building in a conservation area.
Formats:
Listed Building/Conservation Area Enforcement Notice Appeal (S39), PDF 73KB

Form title: Hazardous Substances Consent Appeal Questionnaire
Description: For use by the council when a Hazardous Substances Consent Appeal has been submitted. The questionnaire provides vital information relating to the appeal.
Formats:
Hazardous Substances Consent Appeal Questionnaire, Word 43KB
Hazardous Substances Consent Appeal Questionnaire pdf 7.75 KB

Form title: Land Compensation Act 1961 (S18)
Description: Use this form if you want to make an appeal in respect of a Certificate of Appropriate Alternative Development under S18 of the Land Compensation Act 1961
Formats:
Land Compensation Act 1961 (S18), pdf 50.8 KB

Form title: Listed Building Consent or Conservation Area Consent Appeal Form (S20)
Description: Use this form if your application for consent has been: refused, not decided within the appropriate period (usually 8 weeks), or granted subject to conditions to which you object. Use it also if an application to vary or remove a condition attached to a previous consent has been refused.
Formats:
Listed Building Consent or Conservation Area Consent Appeal Form (S20), PDF 81Kb

Form title: Listed Building Purchase Notice Following Confirmation of Opposed Revocation or Modification Order (S32)
Description: Use this form if you want to serve a Listed Building Purchase Notice on the council following confirmation of an opposed revocation or modification order.
Formats:
Listed Building Purchase Notice Following Confirmation of Opposed Revocation or Modification Order (S32), Word 28KB
Listed Building Purchase Notice Following Confirmation of Opposed Revocation or Modification Order (S32),PDF 20.7 KB

Form title: Listed Building Purchase Notice Following Refusal or Conditional Grant of Listed Building Consent (S32)
Description: Use this form if you want to serve a Listed Building Purchase Notice on the council following their Refusal or Conditional Grant of Listed Building Consent.
Formats:
Listed Building Purchase Notice Following Refusal or Conditional Grant of Listed Building Consent (S32), Word 24KB
Listed Building Purchase Notice Following Refusal or Conditional Grant of Listed Building Consent (S32), PDF 20.7 KB

Form title: Listed Building Purchase Notice Following Unopposed Revocation or Modification Order (S32 & S74b)
Description: Use this form if you want to serve a Listed Building Purchase Notice on the council following an Unopposed Revocation or Modification Order.
Formats:
Listed Building Purchase Notice Following Unopposed Revocation or Modification Order (S32 & S74b), Word 25KB
Listed Building Purchase Notice Following Unopposed Revocation or Modification Order (S32 & S74b), PDF 20.7 KB

Form title: Modification or Discharge of Planning Obligations Appeal (S106)
Description: Use this form if your application to modify or discharge a planning obligation has been refused, or not decided within the appropriate period (usually 8 weeks)
Formats:
Modification or Discharge of Planning Obligations Appeal (S106), PDF 27KB

Form title: Purchase Notice - Following Confirmation of Discontinuance Order (S137)
Description: Use this form if you want to serve a purchase notice on the council following confirmation of a Discontinuance Order.
Formats:
Purchase Notice - Following Confirmation of Discontinuance Order (S137), Word 24Kb
Purchase Notice - Following Confirmation of Discontinuance Notice (S137) PDF 20.6 KB

Form title: Purchase Notice - Following Confirmation of Opposed Revocation or Modification Order (S137)
Description: Use this form if you want to serve a Purchase Notice on the council following Confirmation of an opposed revocation or modification order.
Formats:
Purchase Notice - Following Confirmation of Opposed Revocation or Modification Order (S137), Word 28Kb
Purchase Order - Following Confirmation of Opposed Revocation or Modification Order (S137) PDF 20.4 KB

Form title: Purchase Notice - Following Refusal or Conditional Grant of Planning Permission (S137)
Description: Use this form if you want to serve a Purchase Notice on the council following their refusal or conditional grant of planning permission.
Formats:
Purchase Notice - Following Refusal or Conditional Grant of Planning Permission (S137), Word 24Kb
Purchase Notice - Following Refusal or Conditional Grant of Planning Permission (S137), PDF 20.5 KB

Form title: Purchase Notice - Following Unopposed Revocation or Modification Order (S137)
Description: Use this from if you want to serve a Purchase Notice on the council following an unopposed revocation or Modification order.
Formats:
Purchase Notice - Following Unopposed Revocation or Modification Order (S137), Word 25Kb
Purchase Notice - Following Unopposed Revocation or Modification Order (S137), PDF 20.4 KB

Form title: Statement of Common Ground
Description: In order to save time at a hearing or inquiry, the person making the appeal ("the appellant") and the local planning authority should meet to discuss all the points on which they agree (e.g. the site area, plans etc). The appellant then uses this form to submit the agreed version.
Formats:
Statement of Common Ground PDF 84Kb
Statement of Common Ground Additional Sheet (PDF 42Kb)

Form title: Special Enforcement Notice Appeal Form
Description: Use this form if you have been served with a special enforcement notice under section 294 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
Formats:
Special Enforcement Notice Appeal Form PDF 40Kb

Form title: Tree Preservation Order Appeal Form
Description: Use this form to appeal against the decision of the local planning authority to: refuse consent; grant consent subject to conditions; issue an article 5 certificate on refusing consent or granting consent subject to conditions; issue a replanting direction on consent to fell any part of a woodland; fail to notify the applicant of their decision within 8 weeks from the receipt of the application.
Formats:
Tree Preservation Order Appeal Form PDF 18Kb

Form title: Waste Management Licensing Appeal Form (S43)
Description: Use this form to appeal against the Environment Agency's decision to: reject an application for a licence; reject an application to modify the licence; grant a licence subject to conditions; modify the conditions in the licence; suspend a licence; revoke a licence; reject an application to transfer a licence; or the failure of the Environment Agency to give notice of their decision within the appropriate period following the application.
Formats:
Waste Management Licensing Appeal Form (S43) PDF 29Kb

Form title: Water Abstraction Appeal Form (S43)
Description: Us this form to appeal against the Environment Agency's decision to: refuse a licence to abstract and/or impound water as described; to grant a licence subject to condition as described; or the failure of the Environment Agency to give notice of their decision in respect of the application, or of the reference of the application to the National Assembly for Wales within the appropriate period specified in Article 10(4) of the regulations of 1965
Formats:
Water Abstraction Appeal Form (S43) PDF 20Kb

Form title: Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (As Amended) Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 - Sites of Special Scientific Interest
Description: Use this form to appeal to the National Assembly for Wales in respect of a Notice to withdraw or modify a consent
Formats:
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (As Amended) Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 - Sites of Special Scientific Interest PDF 28Kb

Form title: Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (As Amended) Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 - Sites of Special Scientific Interest
Description: Use this form to appeal to the National Assembly for Wales in respect of a refusal, or the grant subject to conditions, of consent to carry out an operation on land within an SSSI
Formats:
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (As Amended) Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 - Sites of Special Scientific Interest Word 75Kb
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (As Amended) Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 - Sites of Special Scientific Interest PDF 24.2 KB

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