Making your planning appeal
Revised edition - May 2005 (This web version was last updated February 2008 to include the change in governing body from ODPM to CLG)
- About the Planning Inspectorate
- Whether to appeal
- Making an appeal
- Is anyone else involved?
- Timetable for appeals
- The written procedure
- The hearing procedure
- The inquiry procedure
- Appeal costs awards
- The decision
- Complaints and challenges
- Appendix 1 Some relevant publications
- Appendix 2 Listed buildings and conservation area consent appeals
- Appendix 3 Diagrams of appeal procedures
- Appendix 4 Guidelines on putting forward appeal documents, statements and proofs of evidence
- Appendix 5 Data Protection and Privacy in the Planning Inspectorate
- Appendix 6 Inspectors’ Code of Conduct
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.
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