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How to Submit a Planning Application

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If you are thinking about making a planning application, the first step is to contact your local council planning department. It is nearly always beneficial to discuss your proposals with planning officers from the Borough before submiting your application.

Where it is clear that a proposed application will be determined by the Development Corporation, it will be necessary for pre-application discussions to be undertaken with officers from both the London Borough and the LTGDC. The LTGDC will also involve officers of the Greater London Authority where necessary.

You can contact your council planning department as shown here.

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
Planning Reception Service
Spatial Regeneration
Address: Town Hall, Barking, IG11 7LU
E-mail: planning@lbbd.gov.uk
Tel: 020 8227 3933
Fax: 020 8227 3916

London Borough of Hackney
Planning Service
Neighbourhoods and Regeneration Directorate
Address: Dorothy Hodgkin House, 12 Reading Lane, E8 1H
Email: info@hackney.gov.uk
Tel: 020 8356 8062(Gen Enq: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm)
Helpline: 020 8356 3000(To view Planning Dept files)
Fax:020 8356 8087

London Borough of Havering
General Planning Enquiries
Address: 7th Floor, Mercury House, Mercury Gardens, Romford, RM1 3SL
Email: planning@havering.gov.uk
Tel:01708 432 816
Fax:01708 432 672

London Borough of Newham
Development Control Service
Regeneration and Development
Address: Town Hall Annexe, 330-354 Barking Road, East Ham, London, E6 2RT
Email: development.control@newham.gov.uk
Telephone: 020 8430 2678

London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Development Control
Address: Mulberry Place (AH), PO Box 55739, 5 Clove Crescent, London E14 1BY
E-mail: dr.developmentcontrol@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Tel: 020 7364 5009
Fax: 020 7364 5415

Please be aware that the status column will change regularly, and often at short notice, so you are advised to check back for further updates.


Applications for larger strategic developments to be decided by LTGDC will continue to be submitted to the relevant London Borough. The London Borough will deal with the validation and registration of the application as in the past. If an application is invalid, the London Borough's staff will provide advice to the applicant as to the actions which are necessary to make the application registrable.

The London Borough will deal with all matters relating to the publicity of the application, the receipt of comments from interested parties and the initial procurement of specialist advice from statutory and non statutory consultees.

In the event of an application straddling the boundary of two local authority areas, a decision will be taken in each case about which Borough handles the consultation and administrative process.

Planning application fees should be paid by cheque payable to "LTGDC".

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