Planning advice services for householders

If you wish to book a householders planning advice service meeting, please register on our portal and fill in our online form with details about your proposal. Include an email address and phone number so we can contact you.

Request householder planning advice

Before attending the meeting, you should provide a site plan for the property in question. Site plans are available to purchase from the Planning Portal website and help us to identify your property.

Simply mark a red line around your property, including:

• around individual buildings
• any additional ‘curtilage’ spaces like gardens

In addition, if you have drawn up any plans you wish to show us, or have photos or rough sketches for your proposal, it's helpful to attach these items. We can still provide advice without this information. 

Services and fees

We provide the following services for householders. All fees include VAT.

General advice

The fee is £100.

Planning advice

This includes:

• background research on your property
• a face-to-face meeting (online)
• a written record of the advice you have received

You can make an appointment for this service via the planning advice request form.

The fee is £480.

Express written planning advice

For when you need advice quickly and do not need a meeting.

The fee is £300.

Property with basement

The fee is £844.

Out of office visits

If you want us to give you advice on-site (at the site in question), we can arrange this for a fee of £230.

The fee is in addition to the other service fees, like planning advice.

Building control pre-application advice

Contact building control directly.