Planning and Building Control

Welcome to Planning and Building Control. These pages provide relevant information on all aspects of planning and building control within the Borough.

In this page, links are provided to the main service areas on the left. The most frequently used resources are given immediately below. Quick links to other often used information and advice is given to the right.

News and Current Issues - News on planning issues, including documents out to public consultation can be viewed further down this page.

Building Control News can be accessed from this link.

Help & FAQ - If you can't find what you want or are having difficulty navigating the Planning and Building Control pages, this facility might help.

Frequently Used

Online Planning Applications

• Search Planning Applications, view details and submit comments online.
• Find planning application details by Map. This information is available for current applications only. Use map layer "Planning Application - Current" from the list and click "Search Tools" to search for an application or navigate manually using the arrows, scale and/or region controls.

Online Building Control Applications

• Online Building Regulations Submissions

The Planning Portal

• To find out general information about Planning or to make a planning application on-line please see the Planning Portal (opens in new window).

Download 1App Forms

• You candownload 1App planning application forms as pdf documents from the Dacorum web site.

Interactive Adopted Local Plan

The Dacorum Borough Local Plan was adopted on 21 April 2004.

• Adopted Local Plan Policies
• Interactive Adopted Local Plan Maps
• Dacorum on-line GIS

By direction of the Secretary of State all policies in the Plan have been saved - ie. continue to apply - except Policy 27. You can view the  Direction of saved Local Plan policies (PDF 635 KB, opens in new window) online.

Details of the review of the Local Plan can be viewed here: The Local Development Framework.

News & Current Issues

• Highbarns Chalk Mines
  Dacorum Borough Council is working closely with Hertfordshire County Council to assess the situation in more detail and develop an appropriate plan for further action.
• Consultation on Site Allocations Supplementary Issues & Options
  Documents relating to the Supplementary Issues and Options Paper for the Site Allocations document will be available to comment on from the 3 of November 2008 until the 15 December 2008.
• Place Workshop Reports
  Place workshops were held during September 2008 for Bovingdon, Tring, Berkhamsted, Kings Langley, Markyate and the Countryside. These results will be used to inform our place shaping strategies.
• Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA)
  The South West Hertfordshire Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (October 2008) was commissioned jointly by Dacorum Borough Council, Three Rivers District Council and Watford Borough Council, to estimate the potential housing land across the three Council areas. The document can be downloaded.
• Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment)(No. 2)(England) Order 2008
  As from 1 October 2008, amendments to the General Permitted Development Order Regulations in respect of Part 1 householder permitted development (PD) rights came into force.
• East of England Plan
  The East of England Plan was published 12 May 2008. This document sets out the scale, broad location and timing of future development across the region. The document can be downloaded.
• Single Issue Review of the East of England Plan: Planning for Gypsies and Traveller Accommodation in the East of England.
  The Examination in Public was held between 21 and 24 October 2008. The Panel running the Examination should publish its report early in 2009.
• Full Review of the East of England Plan
  The East of England Regional Assembly (EERA) is carrying out an early review of the East of England Plan which was published in May 2008. Documents can be downloaded.
• Growth at Hemel Hempstead
  Copy of presentation from Landowners/Developers update meeting, held at the Council offices on 9 July 2008.
• NATS Consultation on Changes to Terminal Control North Airspace.
  For more information please see the NATS Consultation page.
• Ninian Road
  For more information please see the Ninian Road Consultation page.
• Hertfordshire London Arc Employment Study
  Please follow this link to see the presentations given at consultation workshop for Hertfordshire London Arc Employment Study.
• Maylands Masterplan
  For more information please see the Maylands Masterplan page.
• Discharge of Conditions on Planning Approvals now fee attractable
  For more information please see the Discharge of Conditions page.
• Local Development Framework. Progress so far...
  Information on the latest progress with the Local Development Framework.
• Validation checklists for planning applications
  Validation checklists were adopted on 27 March 2008 for the purpose of validating planning applications.
• Information for Site Allocations Development Plan Document
  The Council is still collating information on potential development opportunities across the borough.

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