Planning privacy notice

The reasons we use your data

  • Communications and marketing
  • Equality monitoring
  • Financial transactions
  • Prevention and detection of crime
  • Regulatory, licensing and enforcement functions
  • Research including consultations
  • Service delivery
  • Service improvement and planning
  • Statutory requirements. For example: reporting to Government, public registers

Why we are allowed to use your data

Legal obligation or public task under various UK laws including but not limited to:

  • Consent – consultations
  • The Environment Act 1995
  • The Environmental Protection Act 1990
  • The Equality Act 2010
  • The Housing and Planning Act 2016
  • The Localism Act 2011
  • The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
  • The Planning Act 2008
  • The Taking Control of Goods (Fees) Regulation 2014
  • The Town and Country Planning Act 1990

Who we can share your data with

  • Contractors / partners providing services on our behalf
  • Education providers
  • Elected members
  • Fire and rescue services
  • Funding bodies
  • Government departments
  • Judicial agencies. For example: courts
  • Other Local Authorities
  • Police
  • Resilience Forum
  • The Environment Agency
  • The general public (via public registers)

Pre-Application Enquiry

The information you provide on this will only be used by the Council to process your Pre-Application Enquiry. The council is the Data Controller of the information you provide and we are required to process this in order to fulfil this contract with you. The council may also use the information you provide, in our legitimate interests, to contact you with regard to completing an anonymous customer satisfaction survey concerning the service you have received.

The council will not share the data you provide with any third parties unless required by law, but the Planning Service will share this data internally with other council services (for example: Highways, Environmental Health) where their input is required. The personal data you provide will be held for one year from the date at which your application was received, after which it will be securely destroyed.




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