Planning

Welcome to the Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council Planning website.

We provide services to both public and private sectors and aim to continually improve the local area.

The site is broken down into four main sections to help you find the information you need as quickly as possible.

Contact the Planning Department on 01782 717717 or e-mail planningapplications@newcastle-staffs.gov.uk

About Planning

Contains an overview of the services we provide and information on the Committee making the decisions.

• Contact Planning
• Planning Performance

Building Control

Provides information on the standards that buildings must be built to, how to make applications and the fees that cover these applications

• Advice and guidance

Planning Policy

The Planning Policy team is responsible for creating and managing the Newcastle Local Development Framework (LDF). This includes preparing the collection of Local Development Documents, which together make up the LDF; commissioning and preparing studies, which provide the evidence base to support it; and monitoring and reporting on its effectiveness.

• Current Development Plan
• LDF
• Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stoke-on-Trent Core Spatial Strategy

Planning Applications

This section will help take you through the planning application process, beginning with deciding if an application is needed then making and tracking an application.

• This weeks applications
• Track an application

Online Resources