Planning and businesses
Planning information for businesses, including compliance and enforcement and development control for roads.
The County Council has a duty to control development associated with mineral extraction and processing, the management of waste, and the County Council's own development. This section provides a general overview of compliance and enforcement and the principles that guide the County Council's work.
We have carried out surveys of retail, business, industrial, storage, and office use since the mid-1970s. These surveys help us with monitoring the provision of employment floorspace.
Development control is the process that regulates the development and use of land, involving the granting or refusing of applications for planning permission by the county council or the district and borough councils.
About the activities of the County Council in the work area of planning development and enforcement.