Development Management
Central to the planning system is the requirement to obtain Planning Permission for development of land, unless consent is deemed to be granted, by a planning regulation or order. Development is defined as “the carrying out of building, engineering mining or other operations in, on, over or under land or the making of any material change in the use of buildings or other land or the operation of a marine fish farm …”. Details of planning applications received; copies of planning application forms, planning application fees and the Comhairle’s policy on Planning Enforcement can be found here.
Submitting Planning Applications
Weekly list - Planning Applications (Opens in a new window or downloads a file)
List of Extant Applications (499.0kB)
Proposal of Application Notices (147.8kB)
Planning Enforcement Charter (559.4kB)
Scottish Public Services Ombudsman - Handling Complaints
SPSO Planning Leaflet (Applicants) (105.7kB)
SPSO Planning Leaflet (Objectors) (105.5kB)
Local Review Body
Customer Satisfaction Survey
Our Customer Satisfaction Survey will help us understand how we can better serve our customers. It should only take 5 minutes to complete and all responses will be kept completely anonymous.