Planning
Planning and Development Service
North Devon Council deals with a variety of planning issues in the district. These include:
Planning and Development Service
North Devon Council deals with a variety of planning issues in the district. These include:
- planning applications (development control) - determining applications
- planning policy - ensuring that new development takes place in accordance with policies set out in the Development Plan (Local Development Framework)
- planning enforcement - investigating breaches of unauthorised development and taking action where appropriate
- conservation areas, listed buildings and protected trees
- advertisement control
- building control - ensuring owners and developers achieve the required standards, checking plans and inspecting building work.
What do you want to do?
- Interactive House
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the Planning Portal has redesigned its Interactive House guide providing information to householders
on planning and building regulations for common household developments - Stakeholder presentation: Introduction to planning and enforcement
(pdf 710 kB)

- Stakeholder presentation: Introduction to planning system
(pdf 743 kB)

- How well are we doing In determining planning applications?
(pdf 22 kB)

- Comments and feedback - your opportunity to let us know how we are doing, what we are doing well, what we need to do better and how you would like us to improve our service
- Planning applications guidance - for guidance and helpful hints to the planning process and to to view and track progress of planning applications and appeals
- Do I need planning permission? - for general pre-application advice
- Planning constraints - including permitted development rights, conservation areas, listed buildings, flood risk, tree preservation orders (TPOs), contaminated land and area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB)
- Frequently asked questions - including link to Planning Portal FAQs
- Information and guidance on how to make an application and downloadable forms
- Adopted local development plan and other information, including details of the local development scheme, can be found via the local plan page
- Planning Portal - links to the Planning Portal including useful tools and general information
- Area team map (pdf 7kb)
- to identify which team to contact - Council meetings/agendas/minutes - to view planning application reports to Planning Committee
Contact information
For planning enquiries, contact the Customer Service Centre:
Telephone: 01271 388288
For Typetalk: precede with 18001
Fax: 01271 388451
Email: customerservices@northdevon.gov.uk
Our office hours are 9.00 am to 5.00 pm Monday to Friday.
Appointment based planning surgeries are held at the Amory Centre, South Molton and the Ilfracombe Centre. To make a planning surgery appointment visit one of the offices or phone 01271 388288.
For planning enquiries, contact the Customer Service Centre:
Telephone: 01271 388288
For Typetalk: precede with 18001
Fax: 01271 388451
Email: customerservices@northdevon.gov.uk
Our office hours are 9.00 am to 5.00 pm Monday to Friday.
Appointment based planning surgeries are held at the Amory Centre, South Molton and the Ilfracombe Centre. To make a planning surgery appointment visit one of the offices or phone 01271 388288.

