Find out if you need planning permission and apply in the Craven area

Find out if planning permission, or another similar consent, is required

Send in a planning application quickly and easily online.

You can only submit a planning application for properties that are within that part of Craven district (outside of the Yorkshire Dales National Park).

We are able to offer advice on your proposed development before you submit a planning application. This can help to identify any issues with your proposal or when you might need to get specialist advice.

Our checklists are to be used as guidance on what to submit with your planning application.

Information on sizes, types and formats of acceptable documents.

A guide to the entire planning applications process from start to finish.

Agreements between ourselves and applicants on the handling of complex planning applications.

The aim of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is to protect the environment by ensuring that when we decide whether to grant planning permission for a project, which is likely to have significant effects on the environment, we do so in the full knowledge of the likely significant effects, and take this into account when making a decision.