Local Planning Authority (LPA) new Local Validation Checklist
North Lincolnshire Council Local Planning Authority (LPA) has prepared a new Local Validation Checklist. The checklist provides guidance on what supporting documents must be submitted with a planning application – some are always required, others will depend on the type of application submitted and development proposed. For your application to be made valid, you must provide all the required information. If the correct documents are not provided your application is unlikely to be validated.
The LPA are running a six-week consultation seeking views on the content of the new Local Validation Checklist. Any comments can be made through our online form before 5pm on Tuesday 1 September 2026. The LPA will take any representations received into consideration before the validation checklist is formally published on the planning website.
Article 4 Direction: Small Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in Scunthorpe
We’re seeking views on the introduction of a new planning control, known as an Article 4 Direction, to help regulate the creation of new small HMOs in Scunthorpe.
The direction only applies to the conversion of ‘small HMOs’, which have between three and six unrelated occupiers. ‘Large HMOs’, which are occupied by more than six unrelated occupiers, are already subject to planning permission.
Read more details and have your say on the Scunthorpe Article 4 Direction webpage.
Have your say on life in North Lincolnshire
Residents of North Lincolnshire are invited to share their views on what they love about their local area and what could be improved.
The Residents’ Survey is now open, offering an opportunity for people to express their thoughts on life in their community, how they feel the council is performing, and what they’d like to see in the future.
The survey asks what is working well, where there is room for improvement, and what matters most to residents and their communities.
It covers a range of topics, from local neighbourhoods and council services to future plans and priorities for North Lincolnshire.
Feedback from the survey will help shape the council’s plans and priorities for the years ahead.
Residents can complete the survey online. Alternatively, printed copies are available at local Community Hubs, where staff are on hand to assist with completing the survey.
It only takes a few minutes to complete, but the impact could be significant.
The survey will remain open until the end of the year.
Community activities at the Baths Hall and Plowright Theatres
This survey has been designed to gather your views regarding the community activities and events we can offer at The Baths Hall and Plowright Theatre. Your responses will be used to help us to shape our future community activities programme at both our venues, and to support local communities to flourish.
There are a total of 7 questions and completion of this survey should not take any longer than 10 minutes.
Tell us what it’s like living in your community
North Lincolnshire Council has the ambition to be the #BestPlace for our residents and to achieve better outcomes for the people and place of North Lincolnshire.
One of our priorities is to ‘Enable Resilient and Flourishing Communities’, and to help us achieve this together, we want to understand what it is like to live in your community.
We have developed the ‘our community’ tool which is designed to capture your views of your community, asking a number of questions about your lived experience, against the council’s four outcomes of:
- Safe
- Well
- Prosperous
- Connected.
The information you provide will be used to determine where we can work together to make your community a better place to live.
Rate Us
As part of our commitment to engage with you, you can now rate your most recent experience with North Lincolnshire Council by answering one question online: