For Business

This part of the guide has general advice about the need for planning permission for proposals related to businesses.

You do not always need planning permission. It is not required, generally speaking, for changes to the inside of buildings, or for small alterations to the outside such as the installation of telephone connections and alarm boxes. Other small changes, for example putting up boundary walls and fences below a certain height, have a general planning permission for which a specific application is not required.