We need to understand fully the nature of the alleged breach of planning control in order to investigate the matter and respond to you. Completing this form in full will help us to do this and may prevent us troubling you for more information at a later date. It will certainly help speed up the investigation.

We may need to contact you for more information. All details will be treated with the strictest confidence.
We do not accept anonymous complaints, and complaints submitted without useable contact details will not be investigated.

You can find out more about Planning Investigation elsewhere on our website.

It is also important to check if the development has already received planning approval.
You can do this by checking Planning Online.

What has happened?

Please tick the appropriate boxes for the type of alleged breach you are reporting.

Where is the site address or location?

If the problem is in a rural area please provide the address, grid reference and/or give directions to the site from a nearby property, town or village. You can write extra information below the address field. It will help us to find the site and to deal with any planning problems.



Do you know who is responsible for the works?

Your contact details


Further information

Please use the fields below to provide further details. It would be useful if you can provide a sketch of the site where the problem has occurred or provide photographic evidence. Digital photographs and scanned drawings can be uploaded at the bottom of the form.

Please note, the maximum total size you can upload is 12Mb.


Data Protection

The information you have provided on this form will be used to deal with your request by the relevant department. We may pass your details on to contracted third party service providers. We will store a copy of your completed request as a backup for 12 months.

If you would like to know more about how we use your information and how you can exercise your information rights please see our privacy notice.