Newark & Sherwood District Council

There are three ways to determine whether planning permission is required:

1.You can come to your own decision as to whether any planning permission is required by looking at the general advice available from the National Planning Portal.

Please note that if you decide to determine whether you need planning permission yourself that this will be entirely at your own risk.

2. You can apply for a formal decision as to whether planning permission is required by applying for a lawful development certificate for which a fee is payable (set nationally) and which will need to be accompanied by scale drawings.

3. You can obtain a written opinion from the council as to whether planning permission is required by completing one of our exmption forms. A fee is payable for this service to cover the cost of an officer investigating the planning history and reviewing the submitted information. If planning permission is required this service we will also include advice as to whether planning permission is likely to be forthcoming. Submission of this form will also allow us to determine whether building regulation approval is required for your proposal.

Please note you may need planning permission to change the use of your property, for example from a shop to an office or conversion of a dwelling into flats.

Live in a listed building?

If you live in a listed building you may also need listed building consent for any changes as well as planning permission. You can still fill in one of our householder exemption forms and we will let you know whether you need both planning permission and / or listed building consent.

Take care! If you build something that requires planning permission without obtaining permission first, you may have to put things right later, which could prove troublesome and costly. You might even have to remove an unauthorised building. You can get more information about this on our enforcement pages.

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