Planning Applications

Whether you are looking to change something about your home, extend it, build a new house or perhaps even a new housing development, you may need to apply for planning permission.

Do you need planning permission?

Some basic guidance on what is permitted development, and what requires planning permission.

Planning Questions and Answers

Find out the answers to some common questions about planning and the planning process in Argyll

Pre-application Guidance

If you are uncertain if planning permission is required, you should use our Pre-Application Guidance Service.

Make a planning application

Here you can either make an application online, or download the application forms and guidance that you are looking for

Planning Application Fees and Charges

Find out how much it will cost to make an application for planning permission

Search for planning applications

You can search our online planning system for applications that have been made, view the associated plans and comment on them

Design Guidance

Our design guides have been produced as a source of advice on appropriate and sustainable development specifically for Argyll and Bute's diverse towns, villages and countryside

Examples of good design

See some examples of good design in Argyll and Bute

Unauthorised development

How to tell us if you suspect any development is not authorised, and view our enforcement registers