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View and comment on planning applications

Find out how to view application documents and make comments on current planning applications.

You can use Public Access to view planning application or appeal details including plans, documents, decisions and key dates, as well as comment on current applications.

If you use Public Access, you agree to our terms and conditions found at the end of this page.

Public Access

If you require access to any documents that do not appear on Public Access from 2015 onwards, please contact planning@sstaffs.gov.uk and these can be made available online on request.

If you require copies of planning documents for applications pre 2015, these files can be sent to you electronically for a fee of £10.00 per application file. For further details on how to request documents and make a payment, please see our copy documents page. 

Commenting on an application

Before you get in touch, please look at the application's plans and documents on Public Access.

Anyone can comment on a planning application that has not yet been decided.

The council can only take material considerations into account when making a decision.

For example:

  • Local and National Policy
  • Loss of light;
  • Overlooking;
  • Development density;
  • Design;
  • Traffic; or
  • Harm to trees and/or wildlife.

We cannot take into account:

  • Property values;
  • Minor disruption during construction work;
  • Technical construction details;
  • Loss of views over land you don't own;
  • The behaviour or character of anyone involved;
  • Commercial competition; and
  • Boundary disputes.

If you make comments after the consultation expiry date, we cannot guarantee that your comments will be taken into account when the application is determined.

Any correspondence will form part of the public planning file and will be published on the council's website, viewable to members of the general public. Once a comment is submitted, please allow up to 7 working days for the comment to appear on Public Access.

Your name and comments will not be withheld unless requested in writing.

Comments may be redacted before they are published on the council's website to remove any personal or financial information or offensive comments. 

Data Protection

The council maintains a register of planning applications and applications for tree work, which includes personal details of people who have:

  • submitted a planning application;
  • commented on a planning application;
  • submitted pre-application enquiries and hedgerow removal notices; or
  • submitted a complaint about a high hedge, together with details of the person living at the property where the hedge is growing and the person who owns the property.

To maintain this register, we collect and use personal information about you.

For more information about how we process this data, please see our Data Protection page.

Public Access: Terms and conditions

Please read the terms and conditions.

Licence agreement for access to National and/or Authority Datasets

These terms and conditions refer to datasets created, maintained and/or compiled by:

  • Local Government Information House Limited (the “National Datasets"); and
  • South Staffordshire Council (the “Authority Datasets").

Use of these datasets is subject to the following terms and conditions.

  1. The National and/or Authority Datasets feed into the National Land and Property Gazetteer and the National Street Gazetteer. Information displayed throughout the Website comes from a copyright work owned by the Local Government Information House Limited and South Staffordshire Council.

     
  2. You may make one screen print of National and/or Authority Dataset search results.

     
  3. You may not use information from the National and/or Authority Datasets for any commercial or business purpose, including (but not limited to):
  • trading;
  • building commercial databases;
  • reselling; or
  • redistribution.

     
  1. You may not:
  • modify;
  • adapt;
  • rearrange;
  • alter;
  • adjust; or
  • add to

information from the National and/or Authority Datasets.

 

  1. You may not combine information from the National and/or Authority Datasets with other mapping, data or other information, including for the avoidance of doubt, other such information derived from this website.

     
  2. Except as permitted by paragraph two, you may not:
  • reproduce;
  • copy;
  • download;
  • store;
  • record;
  • broadcast;
  • re-transmit;
  • distribute;
  • decompile;
  • reverse engineer; or
  • disassemble

any part of this website without our prior written consent.

 

  1. You may not share any of the National and/or Authority Datasets with anyone intending to use them contrary to these terms and conditions. You must tell us immediately if you become aware of anyone misusing them.

     
  2. We take every reasonable effort to ensure that information contained on this website is accurate. However, the services featured on this website are provided “as is". All warranties, conditions and other terms implied by statute or common law are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

     
  3. We shall not be liable to you for any:

     
  • indirect or consequential loss, whether of:

    - profit;

    - business;

    - goodwill; or

    - otherwise,

     
  • costs;
  • expense; or
  • any other claims for consequential compensation that arises from or in connection with your use of this website.

Copyright

  1. We provide mapping under licence from the Ordnance Survey. Mapping is subject to Crown Copyright on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings.



    South Staffordshire Council

    Licence Number 100019681 (2017).

     
  2. Unless stated otherwise, South Staffordshire Council retains the copyright to all original material on this Website. All plans, drawing and material submitted to us are protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988: Section 47.

     
  3. You may only download or print material for consultation purposes, to compare current applications with previous schemes and to check whether completed developments accord with the approved plans. You may not make further copies without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Your continued use of this website indicates that you accept these terms and conditions. If you do not, please exit this website immediately.

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