Terms and Conditions

Use of this site is subject to the following terms and conditions:

This website is a government website owned, operated and managed by Planning Service.

Access to, and use of, this site is provided by Planning Service for your personal use only. Use of this site constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions, which take effect immediately on your first use of the site. Planning Service reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time by posting changes online.

You are responsible for reviewing regularly information posted online to obtain timely notice of such changes. Your continued use of this site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of this agreement as modified by the posted changes.

(This relates to creations of the mind: inventions (patents), literary works, symbols, names and images used in commerce.)

The names, images and logos identifying Planning Service and the Department of The Environment, hereafter referred to as 'the Department', are proprietary marks of Planning Service and the Department. Copying or use of the Planning Service or Department’s logo and/or any other third party logos accessed via the Planning Service Website is not permitted without prior approval from Planning Service or the Department or relevant copyright owner in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

The material on this site is protected by Crown copyright unless otherwise indicated. The material protected by Crown copyright (other than the Royal Coat of Arms and departmental or agency logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format as long as it is reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. If you want to reproduce, or copy to other people, any of the Crown copyright items on this, you must say where you have taken those items from and must acknowledge who owns the copyright.

The permission to reproduce Crown-protected material does not cover any material on this site that is identified as being the copyright of another person or organisation. You must get permission to produce that material from the copyright holders. Planning Service encourages users to establish hyperlinks to this site.

For further information on Crown copyright policy and licensing arrangements, see the guidance featured on HMSO's website .

Copying or use of the Planning Service or Department’s logo and/or other third party logos accessed via this website is not permitted without prior approval from the copyright owner. Requests for permission to use the Department’s logo should be directed to:

DOE Press Office
Department of The Environment
Room 413e
Clarence Court
10-18 Adelaide Street
Belfast
BT2 8GB

Tel: 028 9054 1196
E-mail: doe.pressoffice@doeni.gov.uk

Tell us how and why you wish to use our logos. Please include your contact details as appropriate; name, address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail.

We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on our site and, therefore, you do not need to ask our permission to do so. However, we would prefer it if our pages were not to be loaded into frames on your site. Planning Service’s web pages should load into the user's entire window.

The links provided on this site are for your information and should not be taken as an endorsement of any kind. Planning Service accepts no responsibility in respect of your access to such websites or any material found on them. Planning Service cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of linked pages.

We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website.

The Planning Service Website, and material relating to government information, products and services (or third party information, products and services), are provided 'as is' without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. We do not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in this site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that make it available are free of viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials.

In the case of any contradiction between the contents of these web pages and any published document, the provisions of the published document will prevail, unless stated otherwise.

In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from use or loss of use of, data, or profits, arising out of or in connection with the use of the Planning Service Website.

Planning Service secures information of a sufficient nature to enable the successful processing of planning applications.

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 provide a general right of access to all information held by a public authority and Planning Service is committed to demonstrating openness and transparency in its decision making processes.

Under Article 124 of the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 Planning Service is obliged to make your planning application and related plans and drawings publically available for inspection by means of a Statutory Register that is currently available to view at the relevant Divisional Planning Office.

This will include your personal details, including your name, address and telephone number.

In the course of processing your application, Planning Service may make some information available on its website, provide information to telephone callers, supply information to other statutory bodies in connection with planning applications, or make your application available for public viewing. This may be by means of:-

For further information on how your information is used, how we maintain the security of your information and your rights to access information we hold on you, please contact planning.service.hq@doeni.gov.uk