Planning Leaflets
Elmbridge Borough Council produce a number of free guidance leaflets available to download or view at our Council Offices. You can also refer to guides published by |Communities and Local Government (CLG) for general planning advice.
Development Control
- |A Householders Planning Guide for the Installation of Antennas, including Satellite Dishes (CLG)
- |Creating better places to live: A guide to the planning system in England (CLG)
- |Development Control Service Charter
- |Elmbridge Residential Design Guidance
- |Enforcement Concordat
- |Guidance on the storage and collection of household waste
- |Guidelines on Publicity for Planning Applications
- |How to Comment on a Planning Application
- |Informal guidance on affordable housing on development sites
- |Outside Advertisements and Signs: A Guide for Advertisers (CLG)
- |Planning and access for disabled people: a good practice guide (CLG)
- |Planning Fact sheet - Overshadowing (CLG)
- |Planning Fact sheet - Privacy and Overlooking (CLG)
- |Public Speaking at Area Planning Sub-committees
- |Residential Design Guidance - Home Extensions
- |What will happen to your planning application - Non-executive delegation of Development Control decisions
Conservation / Listed building
Environment & Trees
- |A Guide for Appellants (Tree Preservation Orders - Consents for Works)
- |Buying a tree with a house in the garden
- |Over the Garden Hedge (CLG)
- |Protected trees - a guide to tree preservation procedures (CLG)
- |Standards for the Assessment of Agricultural Amenity
- |Trees and Development in Elmbridge - A Guide to Incorporating Trees in Proposals for Developing Land
To request a paper copy of a publication please complete the |online request form.






