Planning and building control system maintenance

From Monday 31 March 2025 at 5pm, there will be scheduled down time for an estimated 5 days as we move our back office systems to new platforms.

During this time our Planning, Building Regulation, Planning Enforcement, Planning Appeals and Land Charges systems will be inaccessible.

All operations around the systems are suspended and will resume after the move.

Planning Officers may still carry out site visits during the downtime. Consultation periods for those planning applications affected will be extended.

Planning enquiries will be dealt with once systems are resumed.

Planning Enforcement Officers will be unable to process any new enquiries or give updates on existing enquiries.

Building Control Surveyors will carry out limited site inspections during this time as inspection records will be unavailable.

During this time the Land Charges Team won't be able to:

receive or complete any Local Authority Searches
provide the status of a Local Authority Search
provide a return date for any Local Authority Search
receive/complete any Street Naming and Numbering applications

If you are a Personal Search Company with URL access to the Local Land Charges Register, you will not be able to access the LLCR during this time.

Planning searches

Make an objection to a planning application

Use our online planning searches facility to find the application you are interested in and, if the 21 day consultation period is still open, there will be a button at the top of the screen marked 'Enter Comment'.

You will the be taken to a form to fill out and submit and your comments be sent directly into our system.

Please see our planning process page for further details about the consultation period.

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