Planning appeals and reviews

You can ask for an appeal or a review of your application if you're not happy about the decision or if your application has not yet been decided and the statutory time period for making a decision has expired.

You'll only be able to do one of these, depending on the circumstances of your application. The option available to you will be explained in the documents with your planning application decision notice. If you're not sure which it is, contact our Planning and Building Standards office.

What should I do before I appeal?

If we refused permission or added a condition that you don't agree with, talk to us about it first.

If you still feel you want a review or an appeal, you must do this within three months of the date of the decision or within three months of the date by which your application should have been decided (if you are appealing because we have not decided your application).

You might like to take a look at planning appeal decisions as well, using the planning appeal search from the Scottish Government's Department of Planning and Environmental Appeals.

Copyright and use of images

Please note that the Planning Local Review Body papers are published on our website, therefore, you must not include any submissions which would be prevented from inclusion where they are the copyright or other intellectual property of another party.

For example, if you intend to use images from Google Maps, you must provide attribution - the copyright mark must be visible. Images from Google Street View must not be included, however, digital links to images on Google Street View are permissible (although you are required to check the current terms to ensure that remains the case before submitting any digital link).

When providing images from any other provider, you must ensure that you do not provide information that is contrary to the provider’s terms of use of that site and must not provide any information that would mean that we breach the copyright or other intellectual property rights of the provider.