Report Deep Dives – Page 3
Section-by-section anatomy of each of the 66 planning report types, beyond the basics.
Report Deep Dives articles – page 3
377 articlesCalculation appendices in a whole life carbon assessment
An appendix exists so a reviewer can trace any headline number back to a quantity, a factor and a stated assumption. Here is what to include and in what format.
Benchmarks and comparators in an economic impact assessment
Gross job numbers are a multiplication, not an assessment. Here are the four input assumptions that matter, where each is published, and how the additionality deductions work.
Floorspace forecasting in an employment land assessment
Employment land forecasts are built from four methods that rarely agree. Here is how each one works, where the assumptions hide, and how a deliverable supply review changes the answer.
Monitoring commitments inside a travel plan
Measures fill most travel plans; commitments make them work. Baseline timing and method, targets that can be measured, the coordinator role, reporting and remedial triggers.
Residual effects tables in an environmental statement
A residual effects table states what is left after mitigation and whether it is significant. The columns that make it checkable, and the inconsistencies readers find first.
Mitigation schedules that become planning conditions
A mitigation schedule with one row per commitment, each naming the wording, trigger, responsible party and securing mechanism, is what lets a case officer draft conditions that match the design team's intention.
Reporting a bat survey done outside the emergence season
Emergence surveys run May to September. What a preliminary roost assessment can and cannot conclude outside that window, and how councils respond to each suitability category.
Photograph schedules in a historic building record
The register and location plan are what make a building record usable twenty years later. Fields to include, scale and lighting conventions, and the deposit requirements.
Executive summaries in a viability assessment
The executive summary is the part of a viability assessment that gets published and read. Six figures it has to state, the fields reviewers look for, and how to handle redaction.
Cross referencing a drainage strategy and a flood risk assessment
The two documents share about a dozen numbers. When those disagree, both consultees spot it and the response asks which figure is correct rather than approving either.
Turning a BS 5837 schedule into a tree constraints plan
The constraints plan sits between the survey schedule and the layout. Drawn before the houses, it saves a redesign; drawn after, it becomes an argument about felling.
Author declarations in a fire statement
The prescribed fire statement form asks who prepared it and why they are competent. The Building Safety Regulator reads that section before the technical content.
Limitations statements in an ecological appraisal
The limitations section fixes the point at which an ecological appraisal stops being reliable. Written properly it protects the author, gives the council something to condition and tells the applicant which surveys are still to come.
Writing a non-technical summary that matches the chapters
Most people who read an Environmental Statement read only the non-technical summary. Here is how to write one that covers every topic and survives scrutiny.
Reconciling Environmental Statement chapters that disagree
Chapters written by different firms from different scheme versions contradict each other. Here is the control system that prevents it and the check to run before submission.
What makes a Planning Statement too long
A Planning Statement is too long when the officer stops reading before your conclusion. Here is how to set a proportionate length and what to cut first.
Figures and plans a Heritage Statement has to carry
A heritage argument is tested on its drawings. Here is the figure set a conservation officer expects, how to grade significance on a plan, and how to key it all together.
Appendices that complete a Transport Assessment
Highway engineers read the appendices first. Here is what each appendix of a Transport Assessment has to contain so the capacity results can be audited rather than argued about.
The appraisal inputs section of a viability assessment
A viability conclusion is only as good as its input schedule. Here is what each input needs by way of evidence, and where reviewing surveyors attack.
The tree schedule in an arboricultural impact assessment
The tree schedule is the part of an arboricultural impact assessment an officer checks line by line. Here are the BS 5837 fields, the measurement conventions and the errors reviewers find.
Limiting factors in an agricultural land classification
Agricultural land classification grades are decided by the worst factor, not an average. Here is how climate, site, wetness and droughtiness each set a ceiling, and what the table must show.
Odour assessment benchmarks and offensiveness categories
The offensiveness category chosen in an odour assessment sets the exposure benchmark the modelled results are tested against. Here is how that choice is reasoned and where consultees attack it.
Reading capacity responses in a utilities assessment
The correspondence from each undertaker is the assessment. A positive point of connection offer often hides a reinforcement lead time longer than the permission.
Forecast and reconciliation in a site waste plan
The 2008 Regulations were revoked, but conditions and the duty of care keep site waste management plans alive. The forecast and reconciliation are the parts that pay.
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