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Local outage affecting our systems

A local utility outage is affecting some of our systems. Our phone lines, Council Tax, Benefits accounts, and the Planning Portal are currently unavailable. We apologise for any inconvenience.

You can still contact us using our online form. 

Planning obligations

What are planning obligations?

If you want to make larger developments, you will have extra responsibilities. We call these responsibilities your planning obligations. Planning obligations almost always apply to developers. The most common planning obligations are linked to:

  • public open space
  • affordable housing
  • education
  • highways
  • town centre improvements
  • health

Infrastructure Funding Statement

Our infrastructure funding statements shows the projects we fund with money from planning obligations.