You can use this form to submit an appeal online to The Planning Inspectorate.

You can find help with completing this form by clicking on the Help buttons throughout this form. Information that you must provide is indicated by *.

Your appeal and essential supporting documents must reach the Inspectorate within 6 months of the date of receipt of the Local Planning Authority's decision notice or, for 'failure' appeals, within 6 months of the date by which they should have decided the application

WARNING: If any of the 'Essential supporting documents' listed are not received by us within the 6 month period, the appeal will not be accepted.

The name of the person(s) making the appeal must be the same as on the planning application form.

You can save the form partially completed and return to it at a later time (see button at the end of the form). Once the form is complete and you submit it, you will be given the opportunity to save a copy of the finished form so you can keep it for your records, and print or e-mail a copy to the local planning authority.

* Are you an Agent acting on behalf of the appellant(s)?       Yes   No

Use our "LPA Finder" to search for the record

Is the address of the affected land the same as the appellant's address?       Yes   No

Are there any health and safety issues at, or near, the site which the Inspector would need to take into account when visiting the site? *      Yes   No

Please attach a description of the health and safety issues.

To follow   And / Or Attached below: Brief Description (30 Chars) File Location +

* If the building is listed, please indicate the grade of the building

* Has a grant been made under sections 3A or 4 of the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953?

* Does the appeal relate to an application for conservation area consent?

* Has the description of the development changed from that stated on the application form? Yes  No

If YES, please state below the revised wording, and attach a copy of the LPA's agreement to the change.

To follow   And / Or Attached below: Brief Description (30 Chars) File Location +   And / Or Already enclosed: Please specify with which document:

What is the area (in hectares) of the whole appeal site?  [e.g. 1234.56]

Area of floor space of proposed development (in square metres) 

Please select one reason by clicking in the small circle next to the relevant one.

1. Refuse listed building consent/conservation area consent for the development described above.

2. Grant listed building consent/conservation area consent for the development subject to conditions to which you object.

3. Refuse to vary a condition(s) in a previous grant of listed building consent/conservation area consent.

4. Refuse to remove a condition(s) in a previous grant of listed building consent/conservation area consent.

5. The failure of the LPA to give notice of its decision within the appropriate period (usually 8 weeks) of an application for permission or approval.

There are three different procedures that the appeal could follow. Please select one.

Appeals dealt with by written representations are usually decided more quickly than by other methods.

Please note that when we decide how the appeal will proceed, we take the local planning authority's views into account.

(a) Could the Inspector see the relevant parts of the appeal site sufficiently to judge the proposal from public land?   Yes   No

(b) Is it essential for the Inspector to enter the site to check measurements or other relevant facts?   Yes   No

If the answer to 1b is 'yes' please explain:

Is there any further information relevant to the hearing which you need to tell us about?   Yes   No

Please explain the relevant information below

(a) How long do you estimate the inquiry will last?
(Note: We will take this into consideration, but please bear in mind that our estimate will also be informed by others' advice and our own assessment.)

(b) How many witnesses do you intend to call?

(c) Is there any further information relevant to the inquiry which you need to tell us about?    Yes    No

If so, please explain the relevant information below

This section must be completed for all appeals other than cases where the local planning authority have not made a decision.

If you have requested the written procedure, your FULL grounds of appeal must be made, otherwise we will take no action on your appeal.

If you have requested a hearing or an inquiry, please provide a brief outline of your grounds.

You can enter your grounds of appeal in the space provided or attach a separate document.

The grounds are set out in the box below    In separate documents

* Do you intend to submit a Planning Obligation (a section 106 Agreement or a Unilateral Undertaking) with this appeal?
Yes    No

This section must be completed for all appeals.

We need to know who owns the appeal site. If you do not own the appeal site or if you own only a part of it, we need to know the name(s) of the owner(s) or part owner(s). We also need to be sure that any other owner knows that you have made an appeal. YOU MUST SELECT WHICH OF THE CERTIFICATES APPLIES.

If you are the sole owner of the whole appeal site, Certificate A will apply.

CERTIFICATE A
I certify that, on the day 21 days before the date of this appeal, nobody, except the appellant, was the owner (see Note(i) of the Guidance Notes for a definition) of any part of the land to which the appeal relates;

CERTIFICATE B
I certify that the appellant (or the agent) has given the requisite notice to everyone else who, on the day 21 days before the date of this appeal, was the owner (see Note(i) of the Guidance Notes for a definition) of any part of the land to which the appeal relates, as listed below:

CERTIFICATES C and D
If you do not know who owns all or part of the appeal site, complete either Certificate C or Certificate D (see Help for details of how to obtain it) and attach it below.

The documents marked with a * must be sent with your appeal form; please send all other documents if appropriate. If we do not receive all your appeal documents by the end of the 6 month appeal period, we will not deal with it. Please indicate which documents you will be sending separately and which you are enclosing now.

Please click on the box to the left of each document that applies to the circumstances of this appeal. This will activate the indicators below it to tell us if the document will follow by post, or is attached in electronic form. If you click in a left hand box by mistake, you can click it again to change your mind.

You can attach any of the required supporting documents that you have in electronic form. If we haven’t provided enough rows for you to attach all the relevant documents under the headings below, please e-mail them to us at appeals@pins.gsi.gov.uk with the name of the appellant and site address in the body of the message. Any documents that you do not have in electronic form can be sent to us by post together with the name of the appellant and site address.

Please use the brief description field below to describe the document that you are sending, so we can clearly identify each document sent to us. For example – Application 12-05-2004

If you're attaching any plans, please indicate the paper size that the plan should be printed on in the Brief Description field e.g. proposedplan@A4.

* Have you sent other appeals for this or nearby sites to us which have not yet been decided?       Yes   No

* I confirm that all sections of this form have been fully completed and that the details in the site ownership section are correct to the best of my knowledge. I confirm that I will send a copy of this appeal form and all supporting documents to the local planning authority today.

You can save your (partially) completed form using the Save facility here. If you have attached any documents to this form, they will not be saved by this process. Neither will the brief descriptions that go with them. You should ensure that you remember to re-attach them and re-type the descriptions when you resume working with this form.

When you use this facility, a separate page will be displayed. You will need to save the page onto your computer using the facilities of your browser. The save is not automatic.

When you want to resume working with this form, find the file for the saved page and open it in your browser. You can then click on the 'Resume appeal' button to continue with the form.

Save partially completed form

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