Online Planning Information

The National Park Authority has welcomed the Scottish Government’s ePlanning initiative in an aim to make planning information more accessible to the public.

You can now search for and view details of planning, listed building and advertisement applications, as well as details on appeals of applications and consultations on energy projects. You can search by reference number, application/appeal type, property address and map.

You can submit comments on current applications directly through our website, which we prefer, but we can accept comments via email. Also, you can view selected documents relating to the application if the application was received after 1 January 2009.

To help you get started please look at our Hints on Searching.

To view online planning information you must read and accept the Terms and Conditions of Use detailed below.

Terms and Conditions of Use

Advice on Submission of Information

Any information sent to the National Park Authority regarding a planning application (including details of the person submitting the information) will be used by members of staff to process the application. As part of the Public Planning Register, the information submitted will be available for public inspection, may be put on the Authority’s website, and may be provided to anyone who requests it under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 or the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

Please remember that any letter of representation made on a planning application either through Online Planning or in writing is considered a public document.

As such, members of the public and organisations alike should note that any representations received in respect of any application will be made available for public inspection. In terms of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 and the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, the same representations will be copied on request. The representations will be published on our website.

The author of a representation is solely responsible for its content and accuracy.

Representations that are marked as confidential or as anonymous cannot be taken into account when planning applications are being considered. Neither type of submission will be published online. Anonymous submissions will be discarded either by shredding or deletion. Whilst we will retain representations marked as confidential, they will not be referred to in consideration of an application and their confidentiality cannot be guaranteed under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 or the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. This similarly applies to submissions made by agents on behalf of clients.

Representations submitted through our Online Planning pages must include your full name, e-mail address and postal address. Responses from the Authority will be made by e-mail unless you indicate otherwise.

Representations submitted by e-mail should include your full name, e-mail address and postal address. If your address is not included the representation will be treated as confidential. If your name is not included then the representation will be treated as anonymous. Responses from the Authority will be made by e-mail unless you indicate otherwise.

Representations submitted by letter or fax should include your full name and postal address. If your address is not included the representation will be treated as confidential. If your name is not included then the representation will be treated as anonymous. Responses from the Authority will be made by letter unless you indicate otherwise and include an e-mail address.

Please note that any libelous, defamatory, or offensive representations will not be taken into account when applications are being considered and will be discarded.

Copyright Statement

The copyright in the content (with the exception of such content as is expressly listed below) and design of these pages is either owned by or licensed to the National Park Authority, and is protected by the laws of the United Kingdom, international treaties and all other applicable intellectual property laws.

You may download these pages to a local hard disk and print extracts from our website for your personal use. You may also re-copy downloaded extracts to others provided you do not do so for profit. Reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited unless for personal use. None of the content of this Web site may be copied or otherwise incorporated into or stored in any other Web site, electronic retrieval system, publication or other work in any form (whether a hard copy, electronic or other).

All Ordnance Survey digital mapping data published on these pages is provided to the National Park Authority under license from the Ordnance Survey and is subject to Crown Copyright. Any Ordnance Survey data reproduced by the National Park Authority as part of its Online Planning information is done so to fulfil its obligations as a Statutory Planning Authority.

Persons wishing to use Ordnance Survey mapping for their own use should contact the Ordnance Survey directly by e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or by telephone 08456 05 05 05.

For the avoidance of doubt, use of any of Ordnance Survey’s copyrighted material is prohibited without Ordnance Survey’s express permission. Any unauthorised or unlicensed use of any Ordnance Survey mapping published on this website, directly by the National Park Authority or as part of an applicant’s submission, will constitute a breach of Crown Copyright and may result in enforcement proceedings being taken.

All documents (including, but not limited to, maps, plans and photographs) submitted to the National Park Authority as part of a planning application and made available through this website remain the copyrighted material of the author of those documents. Unauthorised use of such documents is prohibited without the author’s permission, where unauthorised use shall be defined as any use of the copyrighted material in excess of viewing the material on the National Park Authority’s website and downloading the material to a local hard disk. Any user may print copies of the aforementioned documents only where they intend to use such copies for reference purposes, where those reference purposes relate only to the application the documents accompanied.

Disclaimer
The information provided on this website is believed to be accurate at the time of writing but the National Park Authority accepts no liability for the contents and anyone relying on these contents does so at their own risk. Nothing on this website is to be construed as binding the National Park Authority or constituting an offer on behalf of the National Park Authority.

Mapping disclaimer
The representation of features or boundaries in which the National Park Authority or others have an interest does not necessarily imply their true positions. For further information please contact the appropriate authority.

Data Protection Notice:

We have been liaising closely with the Information Commissioner’s Office and the Scottish Government to ensure that the National Park Authority complies with the Data Protection Act 1998. We will remove any financial information, as well as personal telephone numbers, personal e-mail addresses and signatures, from any documentation submitted to us. Furthermore, our trained staff will do their utmost to ensure the removal of sensitive personal information (e.g. relating to criminal history or state of health) where such information is provided as part of the application process. If you have any concerns relating to information published online, then please contact our Planning Information Officer on 01389 722 024 or by e-mailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Advice and information on the Data Protection Act 1998 can be obtained by contacting:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF

Tel: 08456 30 60 60 or 01625 54 57 45
Fax: 01625 524510

Advice and information on the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 and the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 can be obtained by contacting:

Scottish Information Commissioner
Kinburn Castle
Doubledykes Road
St Andrews
Fife
KY16 9DS
Tel: 01334 464610
Fax: 01334 464611
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Please note:

You can view selected documents from applications received by the Park Authority from 1 January 2009 via our website.
To view any other documents, including all those received prior to January 2009, please contact our Planning Information Officer tel: 01389 722024 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader software to be able to view documents via our website. This software is available free from the Adobe website.
You can still visit the National Park Headquarters in Balloch to view documents associated with planning applications.