Change description : 2025-10-22 10:02:00: The updated guides have been amended to clarify that if an appellant has an agent acting on their behalf, all communications will be sent to the agent. No correspondence will be sent directly to the appellant. [Guidance and regulation]
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Previously, the guides instructed appellants to email their biodiversity metric to us because excel folders couldn't be submitted. This has now been resolved and excel folders can be submitted if they’re moved to a ZIP folder and the ZIP folder is submitted.
2 October 2024
Updated to reflect the expectation of a s106 agreement to be submitted at the point of making an appeal rather than 7 weeks from the start date.
12 September 2024
Guide updated to include a reference to the new AI guide.
6 August 2024
• Take account of the changes to enforcement brought in by the LURA
• Replace the customer email address with the customer form
• Replace ‘DLUHC’ with ‘MHCLG’
26 April 2023
Updates were made as part of work to simplify and streamline appeals guidance.
12 April 2022
Customer Form: Customer services and general enquiries link added
24 February 2022
Clarifications around s319A and changes in the way we request documents
7 October 2021
MHCLG changed to DLUHC
15 March 2021
Booklet updated with links to the Planning Inspectorate new Privacy Policy
10 December 2020
The Choice of procedure section has been updated to reflect that we can now chose a ‘combined procedure’.