Report Deep Dives – Page 14
Section-by-section anatomy of each of the 66 planning report types, beyond the basics.
Report Deep Dives articles – page 14
377 articlesOpen Space Assessment: quantity, quality and accessibility
A development can create a quantitative surplus and still leave a neighbourhood with nowhere decent to go. That is why councils assess quality and accessibility alongside hectares.
Utilities Assessment: capacity enquiries section by section
The council wants to know the site can be served. The board wants the cost and the date. Both answers come from the same enquiry log, assembled in the right order.
Telecommunications compliance statement: what goes in it
A Part 16 prior approval turns on siting and appearance alone. Here is what the compliance statement has to certify, who signs the ICNIRP declaration, and the site search evidence officers actually read.
Lighting Assessment: reporting against ILP environmental zones
The environmental zone decides the limits, and the limits decide the design. A lighting report that leaves the zone unjustified is arguing about the wrong thing.
Site Waste Management Plan: what it must record
The 2008 Regulations were revoked, but conditions and assessment schemes still require the plan. These are the records that make one defensible on site.
Employment Land Assessment: the anatomy of the report
An employment land assessment argues either for retaining a site or releasing it. The sections that decide the answer are the market area definition and the site quality scoring.
Economic Impact Assessment: additionality and displacement
Gross job numbers rarely survive officer scrutiny. This is how additionality is calculated in a planning economic impact assessment, and where the assumptions usually break.
Green Infrastructure Plan: section by section
A green infrastructure plan is distinguished by quantification. Areas by typology, canopy cover and connectivity, all checkable against a local standard.
Geotechnical Assessment: the ground investigation structure
A ground investigation report runs in a fixed order because each section feeds the next. The ground model is the step where the engineering judgement lives.
Fire Safety Strategy: the BS 9991 report structure
A BS 9991 strategy is a fire engineering document, not a planning fire statement. Here is what sits in each section and what a reviewer should test.
TVIA viewpoint schedules: agreeing views and reporting effects
The viewpoint schedule decides most of the argument in a townscape and visual impact assessment. Agree it with the case officer before the photography is booked.
Historic Building Recording: what each of the four levels contains
The four recording levels differ in the kind of record produced, not just the effort. What Levels 1 to 4 contain, and how to get a recording condition discharged.
Archaeological Field Evaluation: the report structure
An evaluation report exists to say what is under the site, how important it is and what has to happen next. How the sections fit together and where weak reports go quiet.
Circular Economy Statement: the reporting structure
A Circular Economy Statement is a quantified document with a narrative attached. How the sections fit together, from material baseline to post-completion reporting.
Overheating Risk Assessment: reporting CIBSE TM59 results
A TM59 overheating assessment stands or falls on its inputs. What the two criteria measure, how Approved Document O changes the modelling, and how to report the rooms that fail.
Exception Test for flood risk: the two limbs explained
The exception test has two limbs and both must be passed, argued with completely different evidence. Here is when it is engaged, what each limb needs, and how to present residual risk so the decision stands up.
Water Supply Assessment: content and consultee expectations
A Water Supply Assessment has to show demand, network capacity and demand reduction. Here is what each section contains, what the undertaker will and will not tell you, and where water neutrality changes everything.
Foul Sewage Assessment: what each section has to prove
A Foul Sewage Assessment has to prove the waste water has somewhere lawful to go and that the receiving system can take it. Here is what each section must evidence, from the drainage hierarchy to adoption and connection triggers.
Odour Assessment: source, pathway and receptor sections
An odour assessment follows a source, pathway and receptor chain. Here is what each section has to contain, how odour potential is banded, and the abatement evidence environmental health officers expect to see.
BREEAM Pre-Assessment: reading the credit tracker
A pre-assessment is a scoring exercise with a design freeze attached. The credit tracker tells you which credits are banked, which are hopeful, and which will disappear the moment the contractor is appointed.
Circular Economy Statement and the pre-redevelopment audit
A Circular Economy Statement without a pre-redevelopment audit behind it is a set of intentions. The audit is what turns reuse targets into a schedule of actual material on an actual site.
Overheating Risk Assessment: TM59 inputs and outputs
A TM59 assessment models every habitable room against two temperature criteria using fixed occupancy profiles and a chosen weather file. The assumptions decide the result more often than the fabric does.
Health Impact Assessment: screening to full assessment
An HIA is required by local policy rather than national law. Here is how screening decides the scope and what makes the recommendations count.
Retail Impact Assessment: the impact test sections
The diversion table decides a Retail Impact Assessment. Here is how to build the catchment, allocate trade and write a conclusion that engages with the numbers.
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