Planning Services

Appeals against decisions

If you seek permission to carry out works to your property and your application is not decided within a set period (usually 8 weeks), or you get a decision that you disagree with, you have a right to appeal.

Appeals are made to the First Secretary of State in England. All appeals are administered by the Planning Inspectorate.

Please remember that there are strict time limits on the right to appeal. Appeals submitted outside these limits will normally be turned away.

The deadline for submitting an appeal is now 6 months from the date of the application decision letter (or in the case of non-determination, 6 months from the date the decision should have been made).

The 6 month period applies to all planning (section 78), listed building and conservation area consent (section 20) appeals.

The change to the appeal period affects:

Local planning authority decisions made on or after 14 January 2005 and decisions in the pipeline on 14 January 2005 - i.e. where the previous appeal period of 3 months had not elapsed.

This means that the 6 month period to appeal will apply to all decisions made by local planning authorities on or after 14 October 2004. Note: It will not apply retrospectively to decisions where the appeal period had elapsed by 14 January 2005.

More information and guidance on the Appeals procedure can be found at:

Planning Portal (General Public) (Please note: This is an external website)

Planning Portal (Professional User) (Please note: This is an external website)

Planning Inspectorate|

We will aim to deal with appeals within the time scales specified by Communities and Local Government
We will normally agree to the 'written representations' method of dealing with appeals unless the proposals have aroused a significant level of concern in the neighbourhood and, in the opinion of the council, the issues raised by the proposals need to be explored in the presence of an Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State
Even when an appeal has been lodged, we are willing, where appropriate, to see whether an acceptable solution can be achieved by submitting a new application

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See details of current appeals and those decided in the past 6 months

Copies of appeal decisions made by the Planning Inspectorate or the Secretary of State will be available for public inspection at the Spatial Regeneration Section, Barking Town Hall and on this site within 3 days of receipt, and copies can be supplied on request.

Contact

Planning Reception Service

Spatial Regeneration

Town Hall

1 Town Square

Barking

IG11 7LU

Supported by Barking and Dagenham Direct:

Tel: 020 8215 3000

Fax: 020 8227 5184

Textphone: 020 8227 5755

Email: 3000direct@lbbd.gov.uk|

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