Website review planningportal.gov.uk
Planning permission: When you need it - GOV.UK
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Title
Planning permission: When you need it - GOV.UK
Length : 46
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Description
When you need planning permission, where to apply, what counts as permitted development and how to appeal a planning permission decision
Length : 136
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| Property | Content |
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| image | https://www.gov.uk/assets/frontend/govuk-opengraph-image-4196a4d6333cf92aaf720047f56cfd91b3532d7635fc21ebcf0d5897df6b5f77.png |
| site_name | GOV.UK |
| type | article |
| url | https://www.gov.uk/planning-permission-england-wales |
| title | Planning permission |
| description | When you need planning permission, where to apply, what counts as permitted development and how to appeal a planning permission decision |
Headings
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- [H1] Planning permission
- [H1] When you need it
- [H2] Cookies on GOV.UK
- [H2] Navigation menu
- [H2] Applying for planning permission
- [H2] Community Rights in England
- [H2] What you can appeal against
- [H2] Contents
- [H2] Applying for planning permission
- [H2] Related content
- [H2] Explore the topic
- [H2] Is this page useful?
- [H2] Help us improve GOV.UK
- [H2] Help us improve GOV.UK
- [H2] Services and information
- [H2] Government activity
- [H2] Support links
- [H3] Services and information
- [H3] Government activity
- [H3] Search
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Text/HTML Ratio
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In-page links
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| When you do not need it | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Appeals | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Scotland | External | Passing Juice |
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| Northern Ireland. | External | Passing Juice |
| View a printable version of the whole guide | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Manufacturing and industry | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Planning permission and building regulations | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| © Crown copyright | External | Passing Juice |
SEO Keywords
Keywords Cloud
services help permission planning cookies government business govuk local need
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Url
Domain : planningportal.gov.uk
Length : 21
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Doctype
HTML 5
Encoding
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W3C Validity
Errors : 0
Warnings : 0
Email Privacy
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Mobile
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| http://planningportal.gov.uk/sitemap.xml |
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