Decide on your action

When you have consulted the development plan, and considered it in terms of your original views on the planning application, your next step is to decide what action to take, if any.

Your options

• Support the application
• it will have positive benefits in the long run, even if there will be undesirable side-effects in the short term, such as during the construction period
  
  
• Ask for details of the proposed development to be changed
  
  
• Take no action
• since the proposal's overall effect would be neutral or of little relevance to your particular interest
  
  
• Register an objection to the application
• suggest action that could be taken to meet your objection, either by amendments to the proposals or by the imposition of conditions limiting their potential damage
  
  
• Request that the application be refused permission because of its adverse effects, which cannot be lessened satisfactorily