
Planning permission – how it works
Planning update 19 June 2025
Although the essential major council wide IT system maintenance that took place recently is now complete this has impacted the work of the Planning teams and we have a significant backlog of planning applications to process. We are currently prioritising the validation of statutory planning applications (those are the formal applications that we required to process and determine by Government) .
If you have recently made a planning application or are intending to do so please note we are not able to offer our normal level of service and are currently running at least three weeks behind our usual timeframes.
We are taking steps to address the situation and will update this website with more information on timescales as soon as we are in a position to do so.
In the meantime we thank you for your patience and apologise for any inconvenience this causes.