Planning Policy / Planning by council
Planning guidance for every English council
296 local planning authorities decide householder applications in England, and no two work from the same designations or local policies. Find yours below. Each page shows the official data for that authority and the policies that decide applications within it.
East Midlands
35 authoritiesAmber ValleyAshfieldBassetlawBlabyBolsoverBostonBroxtoweCharnwoodChesterfieldDerbyDerbyshire DalesEast LindseyErewashGedlingHarboroughHigh PeakHinckley and BosworthLeicesterLincolnMansfieldMeltonNewark and SherwoodNorth East DerbyshireNorth KestevenNorth NorthamptonshireNorth West LeicestershireNottinghamOadby and WigstonRushcliffeRutland CountySouth DerbyshireSouth HollandSouth KestevenWest LindseyWest Northamptonshire
East of England
45 authoritiesBaberghBasildonBedfordBorough Council of King's Lynn and West NorfolkBraintreeBrecklandBrentwoodBroadlandBroxbourneCambridgeCastle PointCentral BedfordshireChelmsfordColchesterDacorumEast CambridgeshireEast HertfordshireEast SuffolkEpping ForestFenlandGreat YarmouthHarlowHertsmereHuntingdonshireIpswichLutonMaldonMid SuffolkNorth HertfordshireNorth NorfolkNorwichPeterboroughRochfordSouth CambridgeshireSouth NorfolkSouthend-on-SeaSt Albans City andStevenageTendringThree RiversThurrockUttlesfordWatfordWelwyn HatfieldWest Suffolk
London
33 authoritiesBarking and DagenhamBarnetBexleyBrentBromleyCamdenCroydonEalingEnfieldGreenwichHackneyHammersmith & FulhamHaringeyHarrowHaveringHillingdonHounslowIslingtonKensington and ChelseaKingston upon ThamesLambethLewishamLondonMertonNewhamRedbridgeRichmond upon ThamesSouthwarkSuttonTower HamletsWaltham ForestWandsworthWestminster
North East
12 authoritiesNorth West
35 authoritiesBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolBolton MetropolitanBurnleyBury MetropolitanCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterChorleyCumberlandFyldeHaltonHyndburnKnowsley MetropolitanLancasterLiverpoolManchesterOldham MetropolitanPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRochdale MetropolitanRossendaleSalfordSefton MetropolitanSouth RibbleSt HelensStockport MetropolitanTameside MetropolitanTrafford MetropolitanWarringtonWest LancashireWestmorland and FurnessWigan MetropolitanWirralWyre
South East
64 authoritiesAdurArunAshfordBasingstoke and DeaneBracknell ForestBrighton and HoveBuckinghamshireCanterburyCherwellChichesterCrawleyDartfordDoverEast HampshireEastbourneEastleighElmbridgeEpsom and EwellFarehamFolkestone and HytheGosportGraveshamGuildfordHartHastingsHavantHorshamIsle of WightLewesMaidstoneMedwayMid SussexMilton KeynesMole ValleyNew ForestOxfordPortsmouthReadingReigate and BansteadRotherRunnymedeRushmoorSevenoaksSloughSouth OxfordshireSouthamptonSpelthorneSurrey HeathSwaleTandridgeTest ValleyThanetTonbridge and MallingTunbridge WellsVale of White HorseWaverleyWealdenWest BerkshireWest OxfordshireWinchesterWindsor and MaidenheadWokingWokinghamWorthing
South West
27 authoritiesBath and North East SomersetBournemouth, Christchurch and PooleBristolCheltenhamCornwallCotswoldCouncil of the Isles of ScillyDorsetEast DevonExeterForest of DeanGloucesterMid DevonNorth DevonNorth SomersetPlymouthSomersetSouth GloucestershireSouth HamsStroudSwindonTeignbridgeTewkesburyTorbayTorridgeWest DevonWiltshire
West Midlands
30 authoritiesBirminghamBromsgroveCannock ChaseCoventryDudley MetropolitanEast StaffordshireHerefordshireLichfieldMalvern HillsNewcastle-under-LymeNorth WarwickshireNuneaton and BedworthRedditchRugbySandwell MetropolitanShropshireSolihull MetropolitanSouth StaffordshireStaffordStaffordshire MoorlandsStoke-on-TrentStratford-on-AvonTamworthTelford & WrekinWalsall MetropolitanWarwickWolverhamptonWorcesterWychavonWyre Forest