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Making a Planning Application

Making a Planning Application

The best way to submit a planning application in the National Park is online through the Planning Portal website.

Applications will be automatically forwarded to the correct authority. The site also lets you complete and print forms for paper based submission or download forms for manual completion and submission.

We are responsible for planning within the National Park and receive thousands of planning applications every year. To deal with these more efficiently the majority are dealt with on our behalf through unique partnerships with the Local Authorities operating within the National Park boundaries.

For nine of these we deal directly with all planning applications. The other four authorities deal with the majority of applications on our behalf.

If you are unable to submit your application online please submit it directly to the Local Authority who will be dealing with your application.

Find out who will deal with your application.

Please be aware that if an application could have a significant impact on the National Park’s purposes and duty we will call it in for consideration by our own Planning Committee.

How Do I Pay?

All payments for planning applications need to be made to the Local Authority dealing with the application area. To find which authority to contact, check Who deals with my planning enquiry/application? 

To make sure your payment is correctly identified and linked to your submission please use the planning reference number (which starts with SDNP/ for existing applications, or ‘pp’ for new applications) OR you can use the first line of the address of the application.

    Important Notice

    Please use your Planning Portal (PP), SDNPA reference number (if received) or the 1st line of the address to reference your payment.

    This will ensure payments are linked to the correct application.

    Failure to properly reference your payment may result in the payment not being identified as relating to planning, and this could delay validating your case.

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