This guide includes details about:
The guide has been updated to make it clearer that interested parties should submit their representations using our online search facility.
Guidance updated following changes to processes after Covid, all references to Covid removed
This guide has been updated to remove unnecessary duplication and become easier to follow. This is in line with the Inspectorates approach to making our content more user focussed.
Clarifications around s319A and changes in the way we request documents
MHCLG changed to DLUHC
Amendments made to the hearing timetable
Annexe I has been updated to bring it into line with Annexe N of the Procedural guide Planning.
New legislation to allow PINS/the Inspector to decide (on behalf of the SoS) whether a combined procedure may be appropriate; andAnnexe H of the Enforcement Guide dealing with the procedural choice for redeterminations has been altered.
The complaints procedure that was published in this booklet has been removed and the new complaints procedure is now available online.
On 23 March 2016 the Planning Inspectorate published revised versions of its four procedural guides on Planning Appeals, Called-in Planning Applications, Enforcement Notice Appeals and Lawful Development Certificate Appeals. Each document highlights important changes.
First published.