Information Leaflet 3: Comment on a Planning Application
Your Comments

You should note that Planning Service has introduced a number of administrative measures that improve the overall accessibility of the planning process. Representations, including letters of support or objection received, will therefore be available for public scrutiny on the planning application file.

If you make comments about a planning application, these will be available for other members of the public to see on file. In giving your views you should concentrate on relevant planning matters. It is important to remember that, when we take a decision on an application, we can only consider those comments that are planning matters.

The main issue for us is whether the proposed development of the site is acceptable in planning terms and is in the public interest. We also have to consider relevant planning policy and the effect the proposal might have on others, and no other interests, such as amenity of residents, the countryside, road safety, buildings or places of historic or architectural importance, and a wide variety of other matters relating to the environment.

To give you some guidance, about what a "relevant planning consideration" is, the following are not matters which planning can take into account:

To help us deal with your comments, please quote the reference number of the planning application in your letter and set out clearly those matters which you want us to consider when we make our decision.