Pre-application advice and Planning Performance Agreements (PPAs)

This section gives you a wide range of tools to use when reviewing your pre application service.  It looks at how and when to use PPAs, it helps you to ensure effective councillor and community engagement in pre applications, it provides advice on setting pre application fees and guidance on best practice.

Planning Performance Agreements (PPAs)

Local planning authorities will be considered to be poor performers where too many applications are dealt with too slowly. In some circumstances and where appropriate, an agreement can be reached with the applicant on what is a reasonable time in which a decision should be made.