Haringey Planning Portal: Search, Comment & Apply Guide

Search Haringey planning applications

Use the public register for current or past planning applications, drawings, documents, comments, officer reports, decisions and appeal decisions.

Use the Haringey planning applications map

Use the map when you know the street, estate or rough location but not the application reference. Click a property to open the full planning record.

Comment on an application

Read the application first, check the consultation dates, include your name and address, and focus on material planning issues.

Check planning permission

Before applying, check whether the work may be permitted development, needs a lawful development certificate, or needs full planning permission.

Submit a planning application

Use the Planning Portal for new applications, but check Haringey’s local validation checklist and document rules before upload.

Check appeals or enforcement

Use the register for appeal decisions and enforcement history before reporting a suspected breach or assuming a decision is final.

Use planning login for register actions

• Make or manage planning comments where the register requires sign-in.
• Track a specific application.
• Save searches for a street, postcode or area.
• Receive planning alerts or notifications.
• Keep a record of cases you are following.

Do not use the wrong account route

• Haringey My Account is broader council access for services such as Council Tax, benefits and other resident services.
• Parking and property licensing have separate login routes.
• A planning-register login does not replace the Planning Portal account for submitting a new application.
• If a page opens to a login screen, check whether you are on the public planning register or another Haringey service.

Planning points that can carry weight

• Design, scale, massing, layout and materials.
• Overlooking, privacy, daylight, sunlight, outlook and amenity.
• Highway safety, access, servicing, refuse collection, parking and cycle parking.
• Trees, biodiversity, drainage, flood risk and overheating.
• Listed buildings, conservation areas, local character and heritage settings.
• Noise, air quality, construction management and impact on nearby uses.
• Conflict with Haringey Local Plan, London Plan or relevant supplementary guidance.

Weak or non-material points

• Loss of private property value.
• Private boundary, covenant, lease or party-wall disputes.
• Personal dislike of the applicant, landlord, developer or neighbour.
• Business competition between rival companies.
• General construction inconvenience without a planning-control issue.
• Anonymous comments or comments without name and address.
• Copy-and-paste objections that do not explain the site-specific issue.

Track one application

Use the planning register tools to follow one specific reference, then watch for new documents, committee updates, officer reports and the final decision notice.

Use weekly planning lists

Weekly lists are helpful when you want to see fresh applications across the borough or check whether a new proposal has appeared near you.

Use decided application search

For decisions, use advanced search, select planning applications from the category menu, enter decision date range and run the search.

House extensions and lofts

Check property type, flats, previous permissions, conditions, conservation area controls, Article 4 restrictions, roof form, materials and neighbour impact.

Flats, HMOs and change of use

Flats and subdivided properties are not treated like single dwelling householder applications. Check the application route, use class and validation requirements carefully.

Lawful development certificate

Use an LDC when you need formal planning certainty that existing or proposed works or use are lawful.

Conservation and listed buildings

Heritage constraints can affect windows, doors, roof alterations, dormers, demolition, shopfronts and materials.

Trees and basements

Tree works, root protection, basement impact assessment, flood risk and ground conditions can add reports to otherwise simple-looking applications.

Building Control is separate

Planning permission deals with land-use and planning impacts. Building Control deals with construction standards. A project may need both.

Core items to prepare

• Relevant application form.
• Location plan at 1:1250 with a red line around the site.
• Block plan at 1:500 or 1:200 showing north.
• Block plan showing development in relation to site boundaries.
• Written dimensions on the block plan.
• Existing and proposed elevations, floor plans, roof plans and sections with scale bar and at least one metric dimension.
• Correct fee checked live before payment.

Extra items that may be triggered

• CIL liable form if new development exceeds the relevant floorspace trigger.
• Design and access statement in conservation-area cases above the relevant floorspace threshold.
• Heritage statement where heritage assets or settings may be affected.
• Basement impact assessment for basement development.
• Flood risk assessment in flood zones 2 and 3.
• Archaeological assessment within areas of archaeological potential.
• Arboricultural impact assessment/method statement where tree works or protected trees are involved.

Overheating assessment

Haringey requires all major planning applications to submit an overheating assessment for areas where people sleep or spend a significant amount of time.

Energy statement for minor schemes

Haringey’s minor-development energy guidance applies to applications creating 1 to 9 new homes or under 1,000sqm of new non-residential floorspace.

Section 106 energy and sustainability

Major schemes discharging energy plan or sustainability review clauses should check Haringey’s Section 106 information requirements note before submission.

Terraces, flats and converted houses

Neighbour amenity, overlooking, daylight, refuse, cycle storage, roof form, noise and access can matter more than the size of the proposal alone.

Conservation and heritage

Areas such as Highgate, Crouch End, Muswell Hill, Tottenham, Wood Green and historic high streets can trigger heritage, character and design issues. Check site-specific constraints.

Trees and front gardens

Street trees, garden trees, trees in conservation areas and TPOs can affect extensions, basements, parking crossovers and construction access.

Parking, cycling and servicing

On narrow residential streets and controlled parking areas, check refuse collection, cycle storage, deliveries, car-free development and highway safety early.

Major developments

Large or contentious proposals may involve Development Management Forums, Planning Sub-Committee, Section 106, sustainability, energy, overheating and detailed consultation.

Policy documents matter

Haringey’s Local Plan and London Plan policies can decide design, housing, town centre, employment, heritage, climate, transport and amenity issues.

Appeals and decided applications

Use the public register for appeal decisions and decided application searches. For decided applications, use advanced search, select planning applications, enter decision-date range and search.

• Read the refusal reasons before redesigning.
• Check whether appeal decisions changed conditions or outcome.
• Remember objectors normally do not appeal an approval.

Buying or conveyancing search

Do not rely only on a quick planning register search when buying. Haringey says a local authority search can take up to 10 working days, and Building Regulations information disclosed is from 1 April 2002 onwards.

• Check planning history, enforcement, conditions and appeals.
• Ask your solicitor about LLC1/CON29 search requirements.
• For older Building Regulations information, ask Building Control directly.