We encourage you to submit your planning application online via the national Planning Portal.

Alternatively you can download the forms below and return by post.

The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2010 sets the fee levels for planning applications.

For alterations or extensions to an existing domestic dwelling. If you wish to apply for permission to extend or alter your home, build a garage or conservatory, a detached garage or outbuilding, a vehicle access onto a main road, a boundary wall or fence, or install a satellite dish you can use this form.

• Householder Application Form
• Householder Guidance Notes
• Local Policy on Householder Extensions
• Trafford Council have also produced a guide to Submitting a Householder Planning Application

Please remember that you may also need Building Regulations approval.

If you require planning permission for any type of development other than alterations or extensions to an existing domestic dwelling, you will need to complete Full Planning Application form. Outline applications and reserved matters have separate application forms below.

• Full Planning Application Form
• Full Planning Application Guidance Notes
• You should also read the Supplementary Planning Guidance for Trafford
• Trafford Council have also produced A guide to Submitting a Full Planning Application

Any 'advertisement' (sign, placard, notice, hoarding which is used for the purposes of advertising), whether illuminated or not, will require a planning application.

• Advertisement Consent Application Form - (Advertisement Consent Guidance Notes)
• Local policy on Advertisements

If you live in a Listed Building and/or Conservation Area, any alteration to the property will require permission. You may wish to contact the Planning Conservation Officer to discuss your plans before proceeding.

• Listed Building Consent Application Form - (Listed Building Consent Guidance Notes)
• Listed Building Register
• Conservation Area Consent Application Form - (Conservation Area Consent Guidance Notes)
• Trafford Conservation area information

• Telecommunications Prior Approval Application Form
• Telecommunications Guidance Notes

• Outline application form with some reserved matters - (Guidance notes)
• Outline application form with all matters reserved - (Guidance notes)
• Application form for approval of reserved matters following outline approval - (Guidance notes)

• Application for removal or variation of a condition following grant of planning permission - (Guidance notes)
• Application for approval of details reserved by condition - (Guidance notes)
• Application for a new planning permission to replace an extant permission, in order to extend the time limit for implementation - (Guidance notes)

Applications relating to Non Material Amendment

• Application for non-material amendment following a grant of planning permission - (Guidance notes)
• Additional Trafford Council guidance for non-material amendments

• Application for Works to Trees (TPO or in a Conservation Area) - (Guidance notes for works to trees)
• Application for Hedgerow Removal - (Guidance notes for hedgerow removal)
• Trafford Tree Preservation Order (TPO) information

• Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an Existing use or operation or activity including those in breach of a planning condition - (Guidance notes for lawful development existing use)
• Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a Proposed use or development - (Guidance notes for lawful development certificate proposed use)

• Application for prior notification of proposed demolition - (Guidance notes)
• Application for prior notification of proposed agricultural or forestry development - proposed building - (Guidance notes)
• Application for prior notification of proposed agricultural or forestry development - proposed road - (Guidance notes)
• Application for prior notification of proposed agricultural or forestry development - excavation/waste material - (Guidance notes)

You must complete a certificate stating the ownership of the property.

Complete Certificate A if you are the sole owner of all the land within the application.

If you do not own the site, or your foundations will encroach onto land you do not own, you must complete Certificate B. Also send Notice Number 1 to each owner. If your application requires the completion of Notice 1, please download the notices below as they are currently not included in the 1App application packs.

• Planning Application Notices
• Listed Building Application Notices

You must wait at least 21 days before submitting your application if you have used either Notice.

As well as Certificates A, B, C or D, if you are applying for Planning Permission you will need to complete the Agricultural Holdings Certificate included with the Certificates.

• Householders Preliminary Planning Enquiry Form- F1
• Pre-Application Planning Enquiry Form - F2

Scale of Charges - Effective 26 February 2010

• Scale of Charges - 26 February 2010 - planning fees for applications - effective 26 February 2010
• Additional Charges - search fees, copying fees, OS map base sources

• Planning portal - a guide for householders
• Planning portal - a guide for business