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Appeal attachments

Introduction

When you make an appeal, we will need to see certain supporting documents and they must be with us before the expiry of the appeal submission deadline.  Where you have the supporting documents in electronic form, and you make your appeal online, you will be able to attach them (provided that each file is not more than 5MB).  However, there may be times when you need or want to send us more than you can attach to the form.  In which case, you can send them to us by e-mail - see below.

Please note that we have published advice about both electronic submissions and postal submissions, which you are urged to read.

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We do NOT accept references (hyperlinks or URLs) to documents or other information on websites.  If any supporting documents or information are available on, for example, the council's website then you should download a copy to send us with your online appeal or separately by e-mail.

 

Submission deadline

Where you tell us on the online form that supporting appeal documents will 'Follow', you must ensure you submit the documents either by e-mail or post within the deadline (6 months for planning appeals and before the Notice comes into effect for Enforcement appeals).

Any missing documents will be requested when the appeal is validated by a member of staff.  Once the letter requesting missing documents has been issued, no further reminders will be sent.

Documents - To follow

When the appeal has been successfully submitted online, you will get an on-screen receipt.  There will be a link from that receipt that allows you to get a formatted version of the appeal document which can be kept for your records, and to send a copy to the council - see Copy for the council.

The formatted version of the appeal form includes a page listing (a) the documents that you attached to the online form, and (b) those that you have said will follow. 

*Submitting the online appeal form - Documents marked to follow

Please ensure your suppporting documents are accompanied:

  • by the page at the end of the online appeal form which lists documents marked to follow: or
  • a covering letter which states which documents are included and states the appeal reference number.

*Submitting Plans

If you intend to attach plans to the forms, or send them in separately by e-mail, please ensure you indicate the paper size that the plan should be printed on.  This can be done by adding the paper size to the file name used to identify the plan i.e. proposedplan@A4.

This will help us to ensure plans are printed to the correct scale.

Postal address for supporting documents

For Planning, Listed Building/Conservation Area Consent appeals
- The Planning Inspectorate, P O Box 2606, Bristol, BS1 9AY
For Enforcement, Listed Building/Conservation Area Enforcement, Crown Land Enforcement, Lawful Development Certificate appeals
- The Planning Inspectorate, P O Box 326, Bristol, BS99 7XF

E-mail address for supporting documents

If you want to send the essential dupporting documents to the Planning Inspectorate by e-mail, you can send them to:

- For Access Restriction appeals: access@pins.gsi.gov.uk

- For all other appeal types: appeals@pins.gsi.gov.uk

*E-mails sent to the appeals mailbox

The appeals mailbox is only for the e-files in support of online appeal submissions.  Once the appeal is started, statements etc, should be e-mailed to the Case Officer's team mailbox (the team e-mail address can be found at the top of the appeal start letter).

Any general enquiries should be sent to the Enquiries mailbox enquiries@pins.gsi.gov.uk

The covering e-mail for your attachments MUST quote the appeal reference if you know what it is.  If you don't know, please quote the appellant's name and the site address.

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Please note that these e-mail addresses are used by everyone wanting to submit attachments to us by e-mail and each mailbox has a size limit.  E-mails up to 10MB should not be a problem - please send more than one e-mail if necessary.