Scenario Walkthroughs – Page 5
Narrative case studies showing the full application pack for a specific project.
Scenario Walkthroughs articles – page 5
166 articlesWhen a party wall notice stopped a rear extension programme
Planning permission does not touch the Party Wall etc. Act 1996. An illustrative walkthrough of a rear extension on a pair of semis, and the notice timing that cost a season.
A solar array on agricultural land and the classification
An illustrative walkthrough where a site specific soil survey split a field between subgrades, changed the layout and removed the objectors' strongest point.
A conversion where contamination was found mid build
Deferring intrusive investigation to a condition saved nothing. What the unexpected contamination clause required, and what an earlier Phase 2 would have avoided.
A school expansion and the transport evidence
Floorspace does not trigger the transport work at a school. Arrivals compressed into two twenty minute windows do. How the evidence was scoped, surveyed and secured.
A commercial extraction system and the odour objection
An illustrative walkthrough of a hot food takeaway change of use where odour objections were resolved through a risk-based assessment, a high-level flue termination and precise conditions.
How viability changed the affordable offer on a mixed use scheme
Viability arguments turn on six or seven numbers. Here is how one negotiation moved from 18 to 26 per cent, and what the section 106 review mechanisms did.
How a householder appeal was won on a single point
The householder appeal service gives you one statement and no second chance. How to narrow the case to a single issue, and what evidence decides it.
EIA screening: when a sensitive area catches a small scheme
Schedule 2 thresholds are only half the test. If any part of a development lies in a sensitive area, screening is required, and this walkthrough shows what that costs.
A rural workers dwelling and the functional need test
A rural workers dwelling turns on whether a worker is needed on the holding at unsocial hours and whether the enterprise can afford the dwelling. This illustrative walkthrough follows both tests to an occupancy condition.
A retail unit split into two, and the access problem
Subdividing a shop into two units rarely involves a change of use. The application turns on the shopfront works, waste storage, deliveries and forming a step-free entrance to each unit.
A community centre extension funded by section 106
Unspent community facilities contributions sit with councils and are listed publicly. This illustrative walkthrough follows a hall committee from the Infrastructure Funding Statement to a completed extension.
A tree that stopped a driveway, and what replaced it
A front garden driveway failed because the sub-base excavation would have cut roots inside a protected oak's root protection area. This illustrative walkthrough follows the redesign to a no-dig raft.
A Class MA conversion refused on natural light
Class MA permits a change of use and nothing else, so a deep-plan office that cannot light its habitable rooms has no remedy inside the right.
A listed place of worship reordering, start to finish
An illustrative reordering of a Grade II church, from the first list of wants to the conditions on the consent, including whether the ecclesiastical exemption applied.
A self build plot where drainage decided the layout
Three trial pits in February moved the house four metres, reshaped the drive and cost seven weeks. An illustrative walkthrough of drainage setting a layout.
A farm diversification scheme across three applications
An illustrative walkthrough of a diversification programme delivered through three applications, showing how sequencing built the highways evidence base.
A basement under a terraced house in London
An illustrative walkthrough of a single-storey basement under a London mid-terrace, showing where the evidence base went and which conditions followed.
An HMO conversion caught by an Article 4 direction
An illustrative walkthrough of a house bought for an HMO conversion in an Article 4 area, where the parking stress survey and the amenity schedule decided the application.
A single dwelling on an infill plot in a Green Belt village
An illustrative walkthrough of a one house application on a gap between two cottages in a washed over Green Belt village, where the whole case turned on the meaning of limited infilling.
A nursery change of use and the outdoor play noise objection
Outdoor play noise is the objection that decides most nursery applications. An illustrative walkthrough of how the assessment, the play area design and the conditions came together.
How bat surveys delayed a single plot scheme by a year
An illustrative walkthrough of a one plot self-build where a preliminary roost assessment in October found moderate suitability, and the emergence survey season had already closed.
A barn conversion where the structural evidence failed
Class Q permits conversion, not rebuilding. An illustrative prior approval refused because the drawings showed new foundations and a structural inner leaf.
A rear extension refused on daylight, then approved
Refused on loss of light, approved four months later. The illustrative case turned on 800 mm of depth, a lowered eaves and a 700 mm set-in from the boundary.
Converting a village pub to two dwellings: the full pack
Pub conversions turn on marketing evidence and community facility policy, not on design. An illustrative walkthrough of a village pub becoming two houses, document by document.
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