It may be necessary to make amendments to a planning application. If the amendment is not considered minor we may decide a new planning application will be required.
We can accept changes when they meet the guidance below.
- if the application is covered by a Planning Performance Agreement (PPA) and amendments and/or the cost of additional officer time spent on these is covered
- if information has been overlooked or incorrect at the validation or registration stage and is considered by the planning case officer to be required for the decision of the application
- for minor changes following the expiry of the initial consultation period, or if additional information has been requested by a consultee. These are at the discretion of the planning case officer, and at their written request. These will be the subject of one round of re-consultation and will require an agreement to an extension of time for determination of the application of at least 4 weeks
- amendments that are required as a result of the deferral of the application at Planning Committee or Joint Development Control Committee
- amendments that are required as a result of legal advice or legal challenges
- amendments relating to large-scale strategic outline applications, or related reserved matters, or hybrid or full applications. These are at the discretion of the planning case officer and require their written agreement.
How to amend your application
Any amendments to an application must be discussed and agreed with the case officer first.
If you need to amend an existing application for reasons another reason, you will need to withdraw the application and resubmit it, or discuss the application through our pre-application advice service.
Householder applications
Amendments will only be requested to be made to Householder applications (HFUL's):
- where there is a small change to the plans and/or documents that does not require a re-consultation
- where something is removed from the plans/description where there is no need for a re-consultation
- to correct any validation errors omitted when the application was validated.
This information would be requested by the officer and should be provided within 5 working days.