You may post your application or alternatively you may wish to bring your application yourself so that it can be checked for completeness before submission. If your application is either incorrect or incomplete it will be returned to you. This will mean that you lose time so make sure that the forms, plans, fee and certificates are all correct and signed where appropriate. Check that your letter application has arrived if, after a few days, you do not get a slip to say that your application has been received, telephone the appropriate Development Control Team. In normal circumstances, the Council will be able to make a decision within eight weeks.
Delays can occur where detailed consultations have to take place or amendments are agreed.
This, however is a course of action which is normally only advisable where you have been told the prospect of obtaining planning permission from the Council is not favourable. Minor, non-controversial applications which receive no objections, may proceed more quickly. Granting planning permission does not give you the right to enter of carry out works on a neighbours or land not in your ownership. Planning permission is only the approval of your proposal by the Council as Local Planning Authority. You will still need to obtain the landowners permission where necessary.