Seasonal Calendar – Page 2
Time-bound planning content: survey seasons, fee changes, anniversaries and council closures.
Seasonal Calendar articles – page 2
65 articlesReptile survey timing and the months that actually work
A reptile survey run in July can record nothing on a site full of slow worms. The season gives two usable blocks, spring and late summer, and the programme has to be built around them.
Sequencing ecology surveys for a spring start on site
Survey windows, licence lead times and condition discharge all sit between you and a start on site. Draw the programme backwards from the date the digger arrives, not forwards from today.
Phasing a survey budget across two financial years
Survey windows do not follow the financial year. How to decide what to commit before 31 March, stage instructions against gates, and price a missed window honestly.
Seasonal flood risk evidence and the winter check
National flood maps miss surface water, ditches and groundwater. Here is how to gather winter evidence for a site, where the historic records sit, and how to report it credibly.
Appeal timetables and the six month deadline
Appeal deadlines run from the date on the decision notice and the appeal must arrive complete. Here is the period for each appeal type and how to use the window rather than sit in it.
Winter ground investigation and what the season changes
Groundwater peaks between December and March, which is the condition foundations and soakaways have to be designed for. The same water makes access and trial pitting harder.
Section 106 payment triggers and the financial year
A contribution payable on implementation lands before any sale completes. The same sum payable before the tenth occupation lands when money is coming in. The planning benefit is identical.
Discharging pre-start conditions in time for a spring start
Eight weeks for determination, plus consultant time, plus a consultee who is slower than the council. Working back from a spring start puts the submission in autumn.
Building a twelve month survey programme for a greenfield site
Seasonal survey windows do not move. Here is how to sequence a year of ecology work, handle the trigger points and keep a layout open until the results arrive.
The bare root planting season and landscape conditions
Bare root planting runs through the dormant season. Here is how that constrains landscape conditions, and how to draft and discharge one without a technical breach.
When to run baseline noise surveys and for how long
The survey has to capture the quietest conditions that will exist while the source runs. Here is how to set the duration, the periods and the measurement positions.
Timing air quality monitoring and annualising the data
A four week tube survey says little about an annual mean objective. What bias adjustment and annualisation do, how long to monitor, and how long the whole exercise really takes.
Local plan consultation windows and when to respond
Comments at Regulation 18 are read by officers. Comments at Regulation 19 go to the examination. Where the stages sit, how long they run and what a representation has to contain.
Determination deadlines over Christmas and bank holidays
The eight and thirteen week periods keep running over the Christmas shutdown. Validation, consultation and committee dates are what actually move, and they move the start date with them.
CIL indexation and the January rate change
The levy you pay is the adopted rate adjusted by an index that changes each January and keys to the year permission was granted. How the formula works and where the savings usually sit.
Planning fee indexation and the annual April check
Application fees move on 1 April, and the rate applying is the one in force when the application is received. Where the current schedule lives, which exemptions exist, and how to programme submissions around the change.
Groundwater monitoring periods for basement schemes
Groundwater monitoring is usually the longest lead item on a basement scheme. What councils expect the record to cover, why the seasonal high arrives in late winter, and how to programme standpipes early enough.
Winter viewpoint photography for landscape assessments
Deciduous screening hides a development for half the year. The winter view is the baseline, the summer view is the mitigation, and viewpoints have to be agreed before November.
Neutral months for traffic surveys and why they matter
Neutral month conventions decide whether a count is usable. The harder question is whether the data you already hold can be factored forward, and that is settled at scoping.
Running a botanical survey in time for the biodiversity metric
Condition scoring in the statutory metric depends on plants you cannot see in winter. Commission the appraisal in the first quarter, survey before any clearance, and plan the programme backwards.
Booking bat emergence surveys before the season closes
Miss the emergence survey window and the application waits until next May. The spacing rules, the booking lead times, and where a precautionary method statement is accepted instead.
Survey programme for a spring start on site
Ecological survey windows are the fixed points in any planning programme. Missing one costs a year, so the appraisal that identifies them should be done in winter.
Pre-application advice queues and the new financial year
Council pre-application charges and service targets are set annually and usually change around 1 April, which makes the timing of a request a programming decision.
Building regulations transitional dates and starting on site
Building regulations transitional provisions turn on the building control notice and a real start on each individual building. Planning permission dates are irrelevant to them.
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