Planning application forms and standard guidance documents  

Planning applications require a number of other forms to be completed in addition to the planning application form.

Please refer to the appropriate checklist for your application to see which additional forms are needed then download the relevant forms and guidance documents below.

Please note for the time being, you will need to print the forms out and submit these to us by post.  We hope to make the forms electronic soon.

General guidance
VPA2 - Guidance for householder applications (99KB)
VPA1 - Guidance for all other applications (135KB)

Pre-application
Householder questionnaire (65KB)

Design and access statement
Design and Access Statement Environmental Management Checklist (21KB)
Design and Access Statement Form (Form DA1 - 9KB)

Protected species & archaeology
Protected species practice note and guidance (454KB)
Protected Species Form (Form PS1 - 75KB)

Archaeology guidance

Local housing needs
Local Needs Housing Questionnaire (454KB)
Local Housing Needs Standard S106 Agreement (454KB)

Article 6
Notice 1(185KB)
Notice 2 (185KB)

Fees
Scale of fees (51KB) - please note new fees from February 2010

Map extracts
Ordnance Survey request form (32KB)

Minerals
Minerals application form (184KB)

s106 Agreements
An s106 agreement refers to Section 106  of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 which allows a legally-binding agreement or planning obligation between a Planning Authority and a landowner in association with the granting of planning permission.

If you need to sign an s106 agreement, please read our VPA1 guidance notes (see above) to see what details/evidence you need to provide.  You may also wish to download a blank standard agreement form below to see the precise obligations you will be required to enter into.

Please be aware s106 agreements are important legal documents and must be drafted by us.  Do not attempt to use or edit these documents to draft your own s106 agreement as it will be rejected.

General standard 106 agreement (27KB)

Local Needs standard s106 agreement (60KB)
Local Needs Named First Occupants standard s106 agreement (64KB)

Agricultural Occupancy standard s106 agreement (33KB)

Ancillary Accommodation standard s106 agreement (33KB)
Ancillary Accommodation for Dependent Relative standard s106 agreement (34KB)

Revoke Existing Consent  standard s106 agreement (23KB)

RSL Agreement (56KB)

Paper application forms

Paper application forms can be downloaded from the Planning Portal.  These will need to be printed out, and completed applications sent to us through the post.  Submitting a paper application will cost you more and take longer for us to process and  make a decision about your project.

If you still wish to submit a paper application please  choose which form you need  from the Planning Portal website, or download directly below.

Popular paper forms
Householder planning consent application form (276KB)

Full planning consent application form (310KB)

Advertisement consent application form (274KB)

Listed building consent application form (278KB)

Application under the GDO for Proposed Agricultural Building (227KB)

Discharge of planning conditions application form (266KB)

Application for a non-material amendment following grant of a planning permission (254KB)

Extensions of time limits for implemention of existing permissions application form  (306KB)