Important Notice - New appeals

Registering new appeals

There is currently a delay of several weeks in registering new appeals, due to higher than usual receipts in recent months.  The Planning Inspectorate are doing all we can to clear the backlog and would ask you to be patient in the meantime.

As an alternative to submitting your appeal by post and as a guarantee that it has been received by the Planning Inspectorate, you can now fill out the appeal form online through the Appeals area on this site.  Just follow the instructions and when you have completed and submitted the appeal form, you will receive automatic confirmation that it has been received.

If you decide instead to submit your appeal by post and want to be certain that we have received it, you may want to consider sending it by recorded delivery.  You can then check that the appeal and supporting documents have been delivered by tracking the registration number on the Royal Mail website (www.royalmail.com) and entering their 13 digit reference number in the 'Track and Trace' box.

Please bear in mind that receipt of your appeal does not mean that it has been accepted as valid.  It will first have to be checked to ensure all necessary supporting documents have been received and that the appeal has been made within the time limit.  As soon as the appeal has been validated, we will write to you setting out the timetable for handling it.

Your appeal will be date stamped on receipt.  Please note that if the 6 month appeal deadline expires before we get chance to examine your appeal, we will give you an opportunity to submit any documents which we find to be missing.  In other words, we will set a revised deadline that takes into account the number of days that had elapsed from when the appeal was received to when the 6 month deadline expired.