Building Warrants, Planning Permission and Planning Policies
Planning and Building Standards Service provides the Scottish Borders with a number of services. These range from ensuring buildings are safe and energy efficient to assessing and approving planning applications and building warrants and providing the Development Plan to guide future development.
The Service is split into three sections:
- Processes building warrant applications and ensures buildings are safe and healthy for people to live and work in
- Ensures buildings are accessible to people with disabilities
- Ensures minimum standards are met in places like sports grounds, bars and restaurants.
- Advises people on the need for planning permission as well as processing the applications
- Pursues unauthorised works and ensures that conditions applied to consents are met
- Publishes planning decisions, committee reports and appeal decisions.
- Produces the Development Plan (Local Plan and Structure Plan) and Supplementary Planning Guidance.
Public Access is an on-line service provided by Planning and Building Standards. This allows you to access planning applications and building warrants on-line.
Please note that the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has instructed all Planning Authorities to remove certain personal information from their websites. This involves searching through and redacting (editing electronically) many thousands of pieces of correspondence. Until this has been done, Scottish Borders Council has no option but to remove information from our website. It is our intention to start work immediately on ‘live’ planning applications in order that people may continue to gain access to the fullest range of information when viewing current proposals. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
This does not prevent you from making an online application or representation and we would urge that you still do this. From Monday 23 June all personal details will be removed from new online submissions.
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