Planning application decision

How planning decisions are made

Norwich City Council has a delegation agreement that certain types of application are decided by planning officers. Around 10% go to the Planning Applications Committee for a decision.

If your application is decided by planning officers

• Your case officer will prepare a report for consideration by their team leader.
• The report explains the proposal, summarises comments, outlines relevant policies and gives a recommendation to approve or refuse.
• The team leader will either agree the recommendation or ask for changes before signing it off and authorising the issue of the decision notice.

If your application goes to committee:

• A report is written by planning officers.
• It explains the proposal, summarises comments, outlines relevant policies, and gives a recommendation to approve or refuse.

Planning Applications Committee is a committee of councillors who make decisions on the applications put before them.

If you’ve submitted comments, you’ll be told if the application is going to committee and how you can take part.

View details of future planning application committee meetings, along with agendas, minutes and reports.

The planning application committee procedure rules can be viewed on page 155 of the delegation agreement.

Decision outcome

• We aim to send a decision notice within five days of the committee meeting (unless legal agreements are still being signed).The letter includes any conditions or reasons for refusal.
• Weekly decision lists and full notices are available on the Planning Public Access website.

Appeals

Only the applicant can appeal a refusal or any conditions attached to approval
There is no right of appeal for objectors.

Find out more about planning appeals