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Last updated: January 2022


What are cookies? 

The Planning Portal website (https://www.planningportal.co.uk/1) uses cookies which are small electronic files of letters and numbers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your web browser. This allows us to recognise your browser and help us to track visitors to our site; enabling us to understand better the products and services that will be most suitable to you.

We use the following types of cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website. These are placed automatically when you first arrive at the site and as you navigate around it, including when you sign into our platform.
  • Analytical or performance cookies: These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our website and our platform. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).


A cookie can contain your log in details and information to allow us to identify your computer when you travel around our site. This is used for the purpose of helping you access the necessary information to support your application and to improve your user experience.


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The Planning Portal is delivered by PortalPlanQuest Limited which is a joint venture between TerraQuest Solutions Limited and the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG). All content © 2024 Planning Portal.

The Planning Portal is delivered by PortalPlanQuest Limited which is a joint venture between TerraQuest Solutions Limited and the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG). All content © 2024 Planning Portal.