Planning applications

Information and guidance for changes to buildings.

Find out how to create and submit a planning application on the planning portal.

Forms and checklists used to apply for different types of planning permission.

Find out what you need to provide before completing a householder application. This includes the biodiversity checklist which ensures you and your project are helping protect wildlife and biodiversity in the city.

Find out about Section 106, the Community Infrastructure Levy, the Building Safety Levy, and other agreements and levies relating to development in Brighton & Hove.

Pay for your planning application online

Find out about the design panel and other pre-application advice.

The Planning Authority's standards for planning applications made online, what you may need to give us and how to give it to us.

Read our privacy notice for information on how we collect, store and process your data.

Search the Planning Register to find and comment on current planning applications and view details of historic applications. The register does not currently include applications made under the Permission in Principle legislation.

Find out how to submit a comment on an application under the Permission in Principle legislation.

Information on public health and planning application process for 5G masts

Learn about a historic planning application.

List of charges for planning history, notices, copying, research.

Forms and checklists used to apply for different types of planning permission.

View the most recent weekly lists of planning applications.

Read Screening or Scoping Opinions that we've issued for a development proposal.

Find out about the committee that makes planning decisions. Look at applications and decisions.

Find out what happens after you have submitted your application.

What you need to know about planning policy.

For refusal of planning permission, or 'non-determination' of an application.

How to find out which case officer is handling your application and how you can contact them.