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We deal with around 1,000 planning applications each year. You can find details of all applications submitted to the Council since 1999 by viewing the Online Planning .

If you are interested in applying for planning permission, please contact a member of the planning team to discuss your proposals, or

You may also be interested in our current Planning Newsletter

Decisions on planning applications submitted to Stirling Council are made in three ways.

  1. Straightforward cases that are delegated to the Director of Environment Services.
  2. Where an application does raise issues, or has received an objection a recommendation is placed in the planning schedule published on this site each Thursday . This becomes the decision of the Council one week later, unless the Head of Planning and Regulation or any councillor has decided that the application should be discussed at a meeting of the Planning Panel.
  3. The Planning Panel considers reports on complex and contentious cases.

    View all current and previous Development Control Panel reports

Planning Applications: Roles and Responsibilities, provides an informal, easy to read guide to the planning process as operated by Stirling Council.

Stirling Council's Development Plan, the approved Structure Plan, adopted Local Plan, first and second alterations to the adopted Local Plan are also available from this page.

Further information on the planning system in Scotland can be obtained from the Scottish Government.

If you are considering employing a Chartered Architect or Chartered Architectural Technologist, you may find the following links useful.
The RIAS is the professional body for all Chartered Architects in Scotland.
The CIAT is the only qualifying body for Architectural Technology and represents over 700 Chartered Architectural Technologists and Architectural Technicians in Scotland.