Report Deep Dives – Page 9
Section-by-section anatomy of each of the 66 planning report types, beyond the basics.
Report Deep Dives articles – page 9
377 articlesOverheating criteria inside a TM59 assessment
A TM59 assessment applies an adaptive comfort test to occupied rooms and a fixed 26 degree test to bedrooms at night. Here is what each measures and where the assumptions decide the outcome.
The four stages of an Energy Statement
An Energy Statement reports the same scheme four times and every figure has to reconcile with the last. Here is what each stage covers and how the residual shortfall is reported.
Survey nights and stress counts in a Parking Survey
Parking stress is the ratio of parked vehicles to usable kerb capacity, and the denominator is where surveys are challenged. Here is how to design and present one that holds up.
Choosing trip rates in a Transport Assessment
Trip rates are agreed before any junction is modelled, and everything downstream inherits them. Here is how to build a site selection a highway officer can reproduce and will accept.
The access chapter of a Design and Access Statement
The access half of a Design and Access Statement is usually reduced to a sentence about level thresholds. Here is what Article 9 of the DMPO 2015 actually asks for, and how to write it so an officer can use it.
Pre-redevelopment audit content for material reuse
A pre-redevelopment audit quantifies what is in the existing buildings and says where each material will go. Here is what to record, when to survey and how the evidence links to a circular economy case.
Health determinants inside a health impact assessment
A health impact assessment only works if the determinants are ones your scheme can actually move. Here is how to screen, choose determinants, build a baseline and report findings for a planning committee.
Access and inclusion in an equalities impact assessment
The assessment is evidence for the decision maker, not a description of your building. How to write the access and inclusion content so it can be quoted.
Utilities capacity evidence for a residential scheme
What a utilities assessment has to prove, how to raise pre-development enquiries that produce usable answers, and why substation land take decides layouts.
Waste storage calculations in a waste management strategy
The bin store sum that planning officers actually check, from generation rates and container volumes to drag distance, vehicle access and the drawings the strategy must cross-refer to.
Evidence for a retail sequential test that survives scrutiny
A sequential test is a documentary audit before it is an argument. Here is how to agree the catchment, show flexibility, and record why each site was discounted.
Sound insulation content for flats above a licensed premises
Measure the pub on its noisiest lawful night, not a quiet one. Here is what the acoustic report must contain, from spectral source data to verification testing.
A Travel Plan a monitoring officer can enforce
Promises to encourage sustainable travel cannot be monitored. Here is how to set baselines, targets, survey methods and remedial measures that an obligation can actually secure.
Structural appraisal content for a barn conversion
Most Class Q refusals on structure come from appraisals that describe condition without answering the question. Here is the evidence that settles it.
Mitigation wording a noise condition can actually secure
A noise condition that names a fan model fails the first time the supplier changes it. Here is wording that sets a measurable limit, a test position and a remedy if verification fails.
What a highway officer reads first in a Transport Statement
Three things decide a highways consultation on a small scheme: the splay, where the trip numbers came from, and the parking count against the adopted standard.
Survey limitations and how to declare them in an ecology report
A thin limitations section reads as evasive. A specific one, which names the constraint and says whether it changes the conclusion, reads as competent.
Photomontage standards in a townscape and visual assessment
A verified view is evidence; an unverified montage is an artist's impression. The difference lies in the camera data, the survey control and the stated viewing distance.
An illustrative greenfield runoff calculation for a small site
Work the greenfield runoff arithmetic for a third of a hectare and you get about 1.5 litres per second. Here is the calculation, the storage volume it implies, and where the local flood authority overrides it.
What an Environment Agency consultee rejects in an FRA
Most Environment Agency objections are about missing information, not unacceptable development. Here is what the officer checks and how to clear a holding objection.
The source characterisation section of an Odour Assessment
A dispersion model can only redistribute what you feed it. Here is how odour sources are identified, quantified and reported so the assessment stands up.
The obtrusive light section of a Lighting Assessment
Obtrusive light limits are set by environmental zone. Here is how to choose the zone, report against the limits and design a scheme that meets them after curfew.
The residual land value section of a viability assessment
Residual land value decides whether a scheme is said to be unviable. Here is how the section is built, which inputs reviewers test, and how to evidence them.
The viewpoint selection section of an LVIA
Choose the viewpoints and you have largely chosen the answer. Here is how the zone of theoretical visibility, viewpoint types and photographic method are handled so a reviewer can retrace every step.
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