Making your Lawful Development Certificate Appeal - November 2004
Contents Page
- Making your appeal
- Is anyone else involved?
- Timetable for appeals
- The written procedure
- The inquiry procedure
- The hearing procedure
- Your appeal costs
- The decision
- Complaints and challenges
Appendices
Appendix 1 (diagram of written procedure)
Appendix 2 (diagram of inquiry procedure)
Appendix 3 (diagram of hearing procedure)
Appendix 4 (Guidelines for statements and proofs of evidence)
Appendix 5 (relevant legislation)
Appendix 6 (the purpose of the system)
Appendix 7 (Inspector’s Code of Conduct)
Appendix 8 (Data Protection and Privacy in the Planning Inspectorate)
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Introducing the Planning Casework Service from The Planning Inspectorate
- Make a planning appeal online
- See appeals locally & nationally
- View them on a map
- See the papers and plans
- Make your comments online
- Track progress in real time
- View decisions
Visit www.planningportal.gov.uk/pcs
Planning Inspectorate Quality statement
We aim to provide the following in the appeal process:
- clear, prompt and polite advice and information
- quick and efficient handling of your appeal
- an open exchange of views between the people involved in the appeal;
- fair and unbiased decisions by appropriately qualified people;
- clear, logical decisions and reports;
- a quick and thorough complaints procedure; and
- a service that gives the public confidence in us.
If you need this document in large print, on audio tape, in Braille or in another language please contact our helpline on 0117 372 8075
This document is also available on our website (www.planning-inspectorate.gov.uk). The Planning Portal (www.planningportal.gov.uk) contains a large amount of information about the planning system in England and Wales , including lists of useful contacts and planning related services. Access to the Planning Portal is free of charge.
You can now use the internet to send us documents and check the information and the progress of your appeal on the Planning Casework Service (PCS) at ( www.planning portal.gov.uk/PCS).
About the Planning Inspectorate
We are part of the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and the National Assembly for Wales . We deal with lawful development certificate appeals for England from our Bristol office and lawful development certificate appeals in Wales from our Cardiff office. The Inspectors, who decide most appeals, have a variety of backgrounds. These include town planning, surveying, engineering, architecture and law. We choose the Inspectors very carefully and train them thoroughly.
When our office staff get your appeal form, they will collect all the information about your case. If you have any questions about it you can contact your case officer. We will give you their name and phone number. Just before any site visit, hearing or inquiry, the case officer will send your appeal papers to the Inspector, who will study them. In most cases after holding an inquiry or hearing, or visiting the site, the Inspector writes the decision. Your case officer will send the decision to you.
This booklet explains the lawful development certificate appeal procedures for England . If you want advice about appeals in Wales you should contact our Cardiff office. The information contained in this booklet was correct when it was published. But it has no legal status. We will deal with every appeal as efficiently as we can, but to do this we rely on everyone's co-operation.
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