Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council

Online Planning

Welcome to Stockton Council's online planning web pages.  You can access our online planning facility by viewing the PUBLIC ACCESS weblink. 

Use these pages to do the following: 

• Apply for planning permission
• Send comments on planning applications 
• View a list of recent planning applications for your area
• Monitor current planning applications online
• Get local Councillors details
• See a written description of each planning application
• See location maps, detailed drawings, plans, correspondence and reports 
• View a list of current appeals against planning decisions
• View decision notices
• Perform property searches

If you have reason to suspect that the information on the Online Planning site is incorrect, please contact us so that we can investigate and make necessary corrections. All plans, drawings and materials submitted to Stockton Council are protected by the Copyrights Act. You may only download and print material for consultation purposes. Any further copies must not be made without the prior permission of the copyright owner, the applicant, agent and architect. Please be aware that we are not responsible for any information displayed on any website other than our own.  If you have comments or suggestions about the Planning website, please contact us.

When submitting a planning application via the council's online facility, you will be directed to  the PLANNING PORTAL ONLINE APPLICATION service. This service provides an easy-to-use system that allows you to submit a planning application online.

Payment of on-line Planning applications - Online applications will be processed and passed to a member of our team to check its validity.  If you have paid online and the application is valid, it will be registered.  If you have chosen the 'pay later' or 'cheque' option, your application will not be registered until we receive the full fee.  

Alternatively, you can submit a conventional paper-based planning application.

It is possible to view online versions of planning correspondence within three working days from the date that we receive it. We try to update online information as soon as we receive it but this is not always possible if we have lots of information to process, or if there is a technical difficulty with the online planning system.

Electronic records are available to view from 1990 onwards.  This site is not meant as an alternative to traditional searches or as a resource to give the full planning history of an application.  If you want more in-depth information you can view a complete set of all records at our offices - contact details and office opening hours can be found in the 'Who to contact' section .

Defamatory comments

It is good practice to publish information given by applicants and objectors on the Council website. Comments relating to planning applications form part of the Statutory Register. The Council has a duty to make this information available via our website.  If we receive comments about a planning application that are considered to be defamatory to another person, these remarks will not be included in any reports or published on the Council's website.  This is because publishing a defamatory statement may constitute a libel. The original paper version showing the comments will remain on the planning application file.  This will be available for public inspection.  The author would remain at risk of the possibility of an action for libel unless he or she arranges to have the defamatory remarks omitted.