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Pre-application advice and Planning Performance Agreements (PPAs)


This section gives you a wide range of tools to use when reviewing your pre application service.  It looks at how and when to use PPAs, it helps you to ensure effective councillor and community engagement in pre applications, it provides advice on setting pre application fees and guidance on best practice.

Planning Performance Agreements (PPAs)

Local planning authorities will be considered to be poor performers where too many applications are dealt with too slowly. In some circumstances and where appropriate, an agreement can be reached with the applicant on what is a reasonable time in which a decision should be made.

In this section:

Pre-application self assessment questionnaire

This is a self assessment tool to help you to with the process of reviewing your pre-application service.

Pre-application - Ten commitments for effective engagement

These 10 commitments are about the way that LPAs, developers and statutory consultees all work together at the pre-application stage. Design your services along these lines and talk to your applicants about doing the same.

Pre-application Suite

We pulled together a suite of tools and guidance that we think you will find useful. It includes advice on engaging councillors and communities, advice on setting pre application fees and some best practice examples

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