Planning advice services
We offer a range of planning advice services to help you get the advice and input you need to support your project - whether that's a quick query on whether you need planning permission for a household extension, through to advice and guidance on major housing schemes.
The advice we offer includes:
Interactive planning enquiry form
Use our interactive planning enquiry form to find out if you need planning permission for a range of projects (from extensions to roof conversions and more), as well as how to find information about your planning application once you have submitted it.
View our interactive planning enquiry form
General planning enquiry
If you have a general planning enquiry which has not been answered in our interactive planning enquiry form, you can submit a general planning enquiry which cost £90, and our team will get back to you within 3 days.
Please remember to have your credit or debit card handy.
Submit a general planning enquiry
Advice on draft plans (pre-app advice)
If you need advice on draft plans and would like detailed feedback from our team, why not submit a pre-app.
We offer pre-application support for all types of applications, ranging from householder, through to minor developments, up to major and strategic developments.
Pre-application advice cannot guarantee that your planning application will accepted - this is because we may not be aware of all issues at the pre-app stage, and won’t be able to consider any comments or responses that are made once an application has been submitted. That said, it can help speed up the planning process as any potential problems can be highlighted before you submit your application.
It will help if you can upload draft plans as part of the form.
Please remember to have your credit or debit card handy.
Talk to us about a major development
We work with our trading company, Lichfield West Midlands Traded Service (LWMTS) to provide pre-application support to developers bringing major and strategic applications to the district.
We are very keen to enter into planning performance agreements (PPA) with developers. PPAs foster positive joint working between developers and our team, and can also help to bring together other parties such as statutory consultees.
A planning performance agreement is volutary and is agreed prior to the application being submitted, and can be a useful focus of pre-application discussions about the issues that will need to be addressed.
If you are considering delivering a strategic or major development in Lichfield District and want to find out more about how a PPA, please find out more about how we can help.