Report Deep Dives – Page 15
Section-by-section anatomy of each of the 66 planning report types, beyond the basics.
Report Deep Dives articles – page 15
377 articlesAgricultural Land Classification survey: grades and BMV
Published ALC maps stop at grade 3, so only a site survey can show whether land is best and most versatile. Here is what the survey does and how councils use it.
Phase 2 contamination report: sampling and risk sections
A Phase 2 report tests the pollutant linkages the desk study only suspected. Here is what each section has to show before a contaminated land condition can be discharged.
Geotechnical assessment: what Eurocode 7 reporting requires
Planning wants enough ground evidence to show stability and a workable drainage design. Here is what to investigate and how the reporting should read.
Structural survey for a Class Q barn conversion
Prior approvals under Class Q fail on structural evidence more than anything else. Here is what the survey has to establish and how to word the conclusion.
Basement Impact Assessment: screening and scoping stages
Most of what decides a basement application happens at screening and scoping, before a single borehole is sunk. Here is how the stages fit together.
Lighting Assessment: obtrusive light limits by zone
A planning Lighting Assessment proves the scheme lights what it needs to, stays inside the zone limits and leaves acceptable residual effects. Here is how.
Ventilation and extraction statement for a hot food unit
A ventilation and extraction statement specifies the kit rather than predicting the effect. Here is what environmental health officers expect to see in it.
Construction dust risk in an Air Quality Assessment
The construction dust section is a risk-based assessment, not a modelling exercise. Here is how screening, emission magnitude, area sensitivity and mitigation fit together.
Personal injury collision analysis in highway evidence
Highway objections turn on safety, not capacity. Five years of collision records and measured visibility distances decide whether an access is supportable.
Construction Traffic Management Plan: routing and swept paths
A Construction Traffic Management Plan is approved by the highway authority and usually blocks the start of work. Routing plans, swept path drawings and condition surveys do the heavy lifting.
Transport Statement or Transport Assessment: the section test
A Transport Statement describes trips, a Transport Assessment models them. The thresholds that decide which one you file, and the sections that separate the two.
Foul Sewage Assessment: capacity evidence and the sections
Councils validate on the foul drainage answer more often than developers expect. The assessment has to follow the hierarchy and evidence each step it rejects.
Greenfield run-off rate section of a Drainage Strategy
The greenfield run-off rate sets the discharge you are allowed and therefore the attenuation volume you have to find. Everything else in the strategy follows from it.
Flood warning and evacuation plan section of an FRA
Emergency planners reject evacuation plans that name no one and trigger on nothing. Here is what the section has to contain to survive consultation.
Climate change allowances section of an FRA
The climate change section is where a flood risk assessment sets the finished floor level. Choose the wrong allowance and the whole design case has to be redone.
Writing the TPO consent statement for pruning works
Tree officers refuse vague applications, not pruning. A short statement that specifies the works properly and gives an arboricultural reason usually gets consent.
Root protection area calculations in an AIA
The root protection area is the number every tree officer checks first. Here is how BS 5837:2012 asks you to calculate it, reshape it and defend an encroachment.
Great crested newt sections: eDNA, HSI and licensing
Newt survey work runs to a fixed calendar. Here is how the pond assessment, the habitat suitability index, eDNA sampling and district level licensing fit together.
Bat emergence survey results: what reviewers check
A reviewer reads the effort table before the conclusion. Here is what a defensible bat emergence survey results section contains and the red flags that stop a sign-off.
Trading down and off-site sections of a BNG plan
Once on-site gain runs out, the trading rules decide what can replace what. Here is how to write the off-site, credits and management sections of a biodiversity gain plan.
Habitat condition assessment rules in a BNG report
Condition multiplies straight into the biodiversity unit calculation. Here is how the criteria sheets work, what evidence they need, and how a competent person checks them.
Trial trenching strategy in an archaeological evaluation
A trial trench evaluation is designed to answer a question, not to cover a percentage. Here is how the sampling strategy, the written scheme of investigation and the mitigation route fit together.
Setting the study area in an archaeological DBA
The search radius decides what a desk-based assessment can conclude. Here is how to set it, justify it and record negative evidence so the county archaeologist accepts the result.
Access chapter of a DAS for a listed building
Listed building access has to reconcile section 16(2) with the Equality Act and say where it lands. Here is the sequence that persuades a conservation officer, and the options table to compare.
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