Making a Planning Appeal
Appeals Process
If you seek consent or permission to carry out particular works to your property (such as building an extension) and your application:
- is not decided within a set period, or
- the local authority refuses your application or grants it on conditions you disagree with
you usually have the right of an appeal.
The appeal will be made to the Secretary of State in England or, for applications relating to land or property in Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales. The Planning Inspectorate 
administers these appeals.
Only the applicant for consent or permission can make an appeal. Please note that there is no right of appeal for interested people or organisations (known as ‘third parties’) in England and Wales.
Changes from 6 April 2009
New legislation came into force with effect from 6 April 2009 which will speed up some householder appeals - The Householder Appeals Service. It will exclude:
- an application for change of use;
- an application to change the number of dwellings in a building.
Where this new system is used the appeal time limit has been reduced to 12 weeks. For other applications, the time limit to appeal will remain at 6 months.
This legislation has led to the introduction of a new variation of Notice under Articles 6 and 9(1) of Appeal (77KB) 
only for householders using The Householder Appeals Service. This must be used by applicants who wish to appeal against a refusal to grant planning permission when serving notice on owners/tenants. The existing notices should remain in use for other application types.
The Planning Portal provides more detailed information on making appeals and the new changes.
