Guide to taking part in planning appeals - If you want to comment on someone else's appeal
How you find out about the appeal
The type of publicity the appeal receives will depend on whether it is to be decided by written evidence and comments, a hearing or an inquiry.
If you wrote to the LPA about the planning application while they were considering it, they should write to tell you about the appeal within two weeks of us accepting it.
If the appeal is to be decided by a hearing, when the arrangements have been made the LPA should let you know when and where it will take place. They may also publish details of the hearing in a local newspaper if they think it’s necessary.
There is usually more publicity about an appeal if there is going to be an inquiry. As with the other appeal procedures, if you have already written to the LPA, they should write to you. The LPA should send you details of the inquiry arrangements once the date is agreed. The appellant must display details of the inquiry, like the time and place, on the site of the proposed development two weeks before the inquiry.
These are the minimum publicity requirements, and you will find more details about each of these procedures later in this guide. Your LPA may give appeals more publicity.
