Seasonal Calendar – Page 3
Time-bound planning content: survey seasons, fee changes, anniversaries and council closures.
Seasonal Calendar articles – page 3
65 articlesBiodiversity net gain dates and transitional cases
Whether a scheme carries the biodiversity gain condition turns on when the application was made, not when it was decided. The two commencement dates, the exemptions and the section 73 problem.
Ground investigation in winter and unreliable results
Three of the results a planning application depends on are seasonal. How to get groundwater, soakaway and gas data an officer will accept.
Tree surveys in leaf and out of leaf
Structural assessment is year round, crown condition is not. What a winter tree survey can and cannot tell you, and how to sequence one before a spring submission.
Planning committee cycles and how to hit one
The date that decides whether you reach a committee is the report deadline, not the meeting. Working backwards through publication, consultation and validation, and what a deferral costs.
Housing Delivery Test results and what they change
The Housing Delivery Test changes the decision balance the day it publishes. What the 95, 85 and 75 per cent thresholds trigger, and the file to have ready before the result lands.
Local plan adoption timing and when to submit
An emerging plan is a material consideration until the day it is adopted. How to time a submission around examination, modifications and the adoption resolution.
Council closures at Christmas and determination periods
The eight week clock runs through the holidays. How to time a submission around a council's Christmas closure, and what to settle before the office shuts.
Daylight modelling at the equinox and the other dates
The equinox does the work in a sunlight assessment, and midsummer and midwinter answer different questions. How to model the dates and present them without confusing a committee.
Noise surveys, school holidays and background levels
Measure the background sound level in the wrong week and the whole assessment is arguable. How to choose a representative survey period and prove that you did.
Parking surveys and the timing the methodology requires
The standard parking stress method counts vehicles in the early hours on weekday and weekend nights. The periods that invalidate a survey, the 200 metre catchment, and how far ahead to book.
Traffic counts in neutral months and why August fails
Neutral month traffic counts are the baseline highway authorities accept. Which months and days work, what weather and roadworks do to a survey, and how far ahead to commission.
Botanical survey season and habitat condition assessment
Why habitat condition can only be assessed between April and September, what a precautionary out of season baseline costs, and how to programme a survey before buying a plot.
Water vole survey season and works near a watercourse
The water vole survey season, why two visits are expected, when displacement can be carried out, and the consents that sit alongside planning permission.
Dormouse survey season and what it costs a scheme
Hazel dormouse surveys need most of the April to November season to reach the accepted probability threshold. What that means for licensing, clearance and the programme.
Reptile survey season and when to start clearing
Reptile surveys run from April to October with spring and September the strongest periods. The season, the number of visits and the translocation lead time decide when clearance can begin.
Great crested newt eDNA window: 15 April to 30 June
The eDNA window cannot be extended by agreement with anybody. Knowing which licensing route you will take before the result arrives is what keeps a scheme on programme.
Bat emergence survey season and your programme
A preliminary roost assessment can be done in any month. Emergence surveys cannot, and the season plus the licensing timetable is what pushes schemes back a year.
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