Applications Online

The Brecon Beacons National Park Authority offers two different online application services.

Public Access

Due to maintenance works, access to our planning applications database is not available at this time - apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. Please contact our planning services team at planning.enquiries@breconbeacons.org for further information or advice on current planning applications or telephone our Planning Services Team on 01874 620431.

New Public Access System Launched 21 June 2011

Download user guide (PDF)

The BBNPA Public Access service can be used to:

view application history for a property
view current applications, including documents
make comments about an application
find properties and applications on an interactive map
save searches and receive email alerts
track the progress of an application

The document viewer features:

Greatly enhanced speed
Thumbnails of JPG and TIFF images
Logical grouping of documents into phases

Application
Consideration
Decision
Development Monitoring
Appeal

ZIP file downloads of all documents for a given application phase
Access to all versions of plans
No withdrawl of documents post-decision
Visibility of creation dates of documents (all documents from the old system will be dated 12/02/09)

Documents will normally be available within 48 hours of their creation or receipt.*

We hope you like the new system.

If you have any feedback to give please get in touch.

Please note that not all details of an application will be visible. Basic application history is visible from 1993 onwards. The main textual data should be complete for applications made from 3 April 2006 onwards and the associated documents and consultee comments from 9 July 2007 onwards.

The system is not available from 9pm until early morning each weekday night due to maintenance requirements.

*Applications are not visible until they have been validated; this is normally 5 working days from receipt if there are no issues.

Planning Portal

The UK Planning Portal can be used for:

general information
building regulations guidance
information on energy saving and micro-generation
further guidance on making an application
applying online using the new 1APP process, please note that if you apply online it will be assumed that you would prefer to be contacted by email rather than post unless you inform us otherwise
appealing online