About local planning services

What are local planning services?

You can now access a variety of digital planning services to notify, report, and submit a planning application directly to your local planning authority, along with guidance to help you navigate the planning process.

Built by your local planning team in collaboration with planning professionals, these digital services replace complex and cumbersome forms with simple digital journeys to make planning faster, simpler, cheaper and easier to get right the first time.

Open Digital Planning

‘Find Local Planning Services’ has been developed as part of Open Digital Planning - a growing community of innovators, including over 150 Local Planning Authorities in England, planning experts, designers, and technologists. It is driven by a shared ambition to make planning more accessible and consistent for everyone, and create an open data ecosystem.

Plan✕

The digital services listed on Find Local Planning Services are powered by Plan✕ - a platform that allows planning authorities to collaboratively create and manage digital planning services for residents, businesses and planning experts. Plan✕ is open source and designed in close collaboration with central and local government.