What is the Planning Explorer and How to Use it
The planning explorer
This is an online planning service which allows you to do the following:
- Search for a Planning Application by a variety of criteria such as address, date and type
- View details of Planning Applications
- Identify the status of a Planning Application
- Submit comments on Planning Applications during the appropriate stage of the application process
- View documents related to a Planning Application
Guidance on how to use the Planning Explorer is availible to download
Alternatively, you can also use My Neighbourhood. Simply enter the address details and find out (amongst many other things) about current and past planning history, TPOs, Conservation Areas and flood risk maps.
Any representations received will be published on the Planning Explorer and placed on the case file for public viewing.
The application, plans and other documents submitted with it may also be inspected during normal office hours at the Council Offices, Mildenhall.
In the case of a householder application, in the event of an appeal that proceeds by way of the expedited procedure, any representations made about the application will be passed to the Secretary of State and there will be no opportunity to make further representations.
Planning decision notices
Planning decisions from 1st January 2003 may be viewed on the Planning Explorer under Specific Application Search and then select View plans and related documents on the details page of the application.
Use the Historic Decision Notices link to search for copies of decision notices for applications received between 1974 and 2002.
An exact copy of each decision can be viewed in Acrobat PDF format. This will open the document in a new window in your browser.