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Planned maintenance to our systems

Due to planned maintenance your Council Tax, Benefits account and the Planning Portal will be unavailable on Saturday 6 December. We apologise for any inconvenience. To contact us in an emergency use our out of hours details.

Decision on local government reorganisation

The Government has confirmed that Surrey will move to a two-unitary council model following its review of local government arrangements. Read our full story and future steps.

Energy statement/information regarding energy and carbon emissions

This is required with applications for new buildings. You need to show (and quantify) how you will meet the energy requirements set out in our Local Plan: Strategy and Sites 2019 (Policy D2).

  • major development need to provide an energy statement
  • minor development need to provide enough information to show they will comply with the Local Plan

Read more information in:

  • our Local Plan: Strategy and Sites 2019 (policy D2)
  • our Supplementary Planning Document for Sustainable Design and Construction
  • the National Planning Policy Framework 2019 (paras 150, 151, 153)
  • the National Planning Policy Guidance for Renewable & low carbon energy (ID.5 paras 001 - 024)