Planning Publications

Development Control Charter

The purpose of the charter is to ensure all planning applications are dealt with consistently and fairly. View the Development Control Charter (PDF 476KB)

Miscellaneous planning charges

This document provides miscellaneous charges for Planning and Transportation. View the Miscellaneous planning charges (PDF 16KB)

The Planning Enforcement Process

This leaflet provides guidance on how breaches of planning control are dealt with. View the Planning Enforcement Process (PDF 560KB)

Appeals online

This Planning Portal leaflet outlines how to access appeals online. View the Your Guide to Appeals Online (PDF 136KB)

Benefits of Online Planning Application Submission

This flyer bulletpoints points reason why you should submit your planning application online through the planning portal. View the Benefits of Online Planning Application Submission (PDF 128KB)

A Guide For Householders

This booklet gives a simplified guide to those aspects of the planning system which the householder is most likely to encounter. Revised version published June 2006. View the Planning: A Guide For Householders (PDF 296KB)

Creating better places to live: A guide to the planning system in England

This guide will help you find out more about planning and how you can make where you live a better place both now and in the future. It will help you find out what planning has got to do with you, your family, your friends and your community. View the A Guide to The Planning System in England (PDF 1.40MB)

Planning Permission: A Guide for Business

This booklet is a guide to the planning system for businesses in England. It provides guidance on when planning permission is required, how to make a planning application, and what happens afterwards. However, it is not an authoritative interpretation of the law. If after reading this booklet you are still unclear how to proceed, please contact us. View the Planning Permission: A Guide for Business (PDF 1.32MB)

Safer Places: The Planning System and Crime Prevention

Safer Places will be of interest to anyone involved in the planning and design of new development. Its main audience is likely to be the officers and councillors in local authorities who guide and control development. But the guide will also be relevant to those who promote development and advise on it, including the Police.

Safer Places focuses on seven attributes of sustainability that are particularly relevant to crime prevention. The attributes are general and descriptive. They are not prescriptive. They are not a set of rules to be applied to all situations. Instead, they should be considered as prompts to thinking about crime prevention and promoting community safety through the planning system.

View the Planning System and Crime Prevention webpage

Code of Best Practice on Mobile Phone Network Development

This Code of Best Practice, produced jointly by representatives of central and local government and the mobile phone industry, builds on Government guidance and operators’ commitments. It provides clear and practical advice to ensure the delivery of significantly better and more effective communication and consultation between operators, local authorities and local people. It replaces the version first produced in 1996.

View the Code of Best Practice on Mobile Phone Network Development webpage

A farmer's guide to the planning system

This guide explains how the planning system works, as at May 2002. It will help you to decide whether you need to put in a planning application for your project and how to go about it. It gives practical advice about presenting your application, what you need to consider and what you can do to make your case effectively. It updates information contained in the 1996 publication of this guide. However, it is not a definitive manual or an authoritative statement of planning law or policy.

View the A farmer's guide to the planning system webpage

A Householder's Planning Guide for the Installation of Antennas, including Satellite Dishes

This guide aims to do the following:

Explain what the regulations say about the number and the
size of antennas allowed and where they should be placed.
Offer guidance on the most appropriate places to site antennas to
try to help protect our environment.
Help retailers and installers provide appropriate advice and
service to you on where to place antennas.

View the A Householder's Planning Guide for the Installation of Antennas, including Satellite Dishes webpage

A Guide For Advertisers

View the A Guide For Advertisers webpahe

The Party Wall ect Act 1996

View The Party Wall etc Act 1996 Webpage

Planning Policy Guidance Notes (PPG)

Planning Policy Guidance Notes (PPGs) and their replacements Planning Policy Statements (PPSs) are prepared by the government after public consultation to explain statutory provisions and provide guidance to local authorities and others on planning policy and the operation of the planning system.

View the Planning Policy Guidance Notes (PPGs) webpage

Supplementary Planning Documents

View the supplementary planning documents webpage

Contact us

Regeneration and Performance
Planning and Building Control
Civic Centre
Darwall Street
Walsall
WS1 1DG

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Telephone (01922) 652452
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Tuesday: 8.45am – 5.15pm
Wednesday: 9.30am – 5.15am
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Friday: 8.45am - 4.45pm

Christmas and New Year 2008 opening times

Tuesday 23 December:- 8.45am – 5.15pm
Wednesday 24 December: closed
Thursday 25 December: closed
Friday 26 December: closed
Monday 29 December: 8.45am – 5.15pm
Tuesday 30 December: 8.45am – 5.15pm
Wednesday 31 December: 9.30am – 4pm
Thursday 1 January: closed
Friday 2 January: 8.45am – 4.45pm

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Please view our complaints and compliments webpage where you can complete an online contact form or alternatively you can print and complete our comments, compliments and complaints form.

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