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We've just withdrawn our application (bungalow conversion) due to feedback from the planners and may even sack our architect...! Tweak the plans then resubmit...
I believe if they've gone way over the estimated decision date you can:https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200232/planning_applications/58/the_decision-making_process/5
johnnettles2-
Given the work we will be doing involves 2 sides of the property facing onto a public highway and a change in the ridge height we knew that there was a lot of things that planning officers don't traditionally like because of that we went for an architect that I knew already who specialises in trickier projects from a planning perspective. Otherwise we would have probably got a structural engineer who practices as a building designer and saved ourselves some cash.
Bobbo
Still waiting on planning, which was submitted late August. The decision was meant to be made by the 17th December and still no word. On the plus side we have had no objections but the architect says that there is no guarantee that the planning officer will not find something they don't like.
On top of this it is now likely that the decision will take a lot longer. According to the architect who is overseeing our application planning officers' performance is generally judged by the council based on a percentage of the number of decisions made on time. Therefore because the decision on our place has run over it goes into the "when I have time" to-do list subsequently I'm taking it in turns with the architect to phone the officer in charge of the application and cheerfully ask him if he's made a decision, we're aiming to be persistent enough to be mildly annoying and remind him we aren't going away without completely pissing him off.