Planning and building control

Information and services in planning and building control

• Planning applications

  Find out how to apply for planning permission

  • Check if you need planning permission
  • Make a planning application
  • View or comment on planning applications
  • Pre-application advice
  • Duty Planning Officer
  • Wethersfield prison proposals

  • Planning validation list
  • Planning appeals
  • Public planning inquiries
  • Planning consultations
  • Planning Committee

  • New government policy on retail opening hours

  

• Planning enforcement

  Find out how to make an enforcement complaint

  • About planning enforcement
  • Reporting a planning breach

   

• Building control

  Find out how to apply for building control

  • Check if you need building control
  • Apply for building control
  • Regularisation (approval for work already complete)
  • Book a site inspection

  • Building control fees and charges
  • Dangerous buildings and structures
  • Demolition of buildings

• Street naming and numbering

  Find out how to apply for street naming and numbering

  • Apply for street naming and numbering

  • Street naming and numbering fees

• Planning policy and the Local Plan

  Information on planning policy and the local plan 

  • Braintree District Development Plan
  • The Emerging Local Plan
  • Section 2 examination
  • Section 1 examination (completed)
  • Village design statements

  • Monitoring reports
  • Self and custom build homes
  • Neighbourhood planning
  • Consultation portal
  • Housing Delivery Test

• Trees and high hedges

  Information on trees and high hedges

  • Report a tree problem
  • Protected trees and hedges
  • Neighbouring trees and vegetation
  • Trees on our land

  • Wildlife and conservation
  • Landscape services volunteers

• Local land charges

  Find out about local land charges

  • Apply for a local land charge search
  • Local Land Charges fees

  • Useful local land charges contacts
  • CON29 form default answers

• Conservation Areas, Listed Buildings, Registered Parks and Gardens, Historic Monuments, and Article 4 Directions

  Find out more about the heritage assets within our district 

  • Conservation areas
  • Listed buildings
  • Registered Parks and Gardens

  • Historic Monuments
  • Silver End
  • Article 4 Directions

• Section 106 agreements and unilateral undertakings

  Find out how to set up a Section 106 agreement

  • Section 106 agreements and unilateral undertakings
  • Setting up a Section 106 agreement
  • Completed Section 106 agreements, balances and projects

  • Habitat Regulations Assessment (HRA)