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Comments, complaints or compliments

If you have a complaint or comment about the way your planning application was dealt with, or have any other comments to make about the planning service, you can raise it through the county council's complaint procedure.

Such complaints will then be investigated by the council's complaints officer, on instruction by the council's chief executive.

If you would like to make a complaint please see our information on where and how to complain.

Local government ombudsman

You can also register complaints to the local government ombudsman, who is totally independent from the county council.

The ombudsman only has the power to investigate the procedures followed by local authorities, i.e. how a decision was reached rather than whether the decision was correct.

For more information or to register a complaint visit the local government ombudsman's website (link opens in a new window).

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