Making a complaint

If you are unhappy with any aspect of how a planning application or appeal case has been handled, it is your right to lodge a complaint

How to make a complaint

• If your complaint relates to the local authority
  
  
• contact the Local Government Ombudsman. The Ombudsman may uphold a complaint, but a recommendation is not binding on local authorities and planning permission will not be withdrawn
  
  
• If your complaint is about procedure at an inquiry
  
  
• contact the Council on Tribunals
  
  
• If your complaint is about an inspector
  
  
• contact the chief executive at the Planning Inspectorate
  
  
• If your complaint is about a Government department
  
  
• contact your member of parliament to approach the Parliamentary Ombudsman