Dartmoor National Park Authority

Search Application Register

The Authority's Online Planning Service enables you to inspect current planning applications, including the application forms and drawings submitted by the Applicant, and then comment on the applications online.

You can perform two types of search:

a text search either by location, (property name or address), by the application number, if known, or by browsing weekly lists of submitted applications.
an interactive map which you can use to search a particular geographic location or area.

Please be aware that in some cases the quanitiy of information that is available may be so great that it cannot be viewed as a whole document.  In these instances you can view the information by selecting the thumbnails option instead of the whole document.

(Instructions on how to use the interactive mapping system are provided below)

Instructions for using the Interactive Map Search

The interactive map displays the National Park with main settlements, roads and all Planning Applications shown in red.  The map scale can be altered by using the plus and minus  buttons.  If a button is chosen it will turn red.  Next, click on the region of the map you wish to enlarge.  The map view can be repositioned using the directional arrows around the edge of the map.  

Placenames or postcodes can be used to change the map display in addition to the navigation buttons.  Simply type in the placename or postcode (with no space eg PL226QF) in the search box and press Go

This will move the map to the required settlement or postcode.

The application reference if known (eg 1234/05) can alternatively be used to change the map display. Simply press the drop down arrow next to the word Places, choose PlanApps, fill in the search box with the application reference and press Go

This will move the map to the chosen application and shade it in with a red cross hatch.

Once the desired planning application is displayed on screen the application forms and drawings submitted by the applicant can be viewed by pressing the button and choosing the relevant hyperlink from the on screen list.  

Please note that you can only link to the documents for planning cases back to 2004.  If you wish to view documents relating to cases earlier than 2004 you should contact the Development Management Service to arrange an appointment to come to the offices and view the documents.

Page updated 18 May 2009