Templates, Checklists and Examples – Page 10
Section outlines, validation checklists and clearly labelled illustrative examples.
Templates, Checklists and Examples articles – page 10
250 articlesA worked CIL liability calculation
The CIL formula in Schedule 1 to the 2010 Regulations is arithmetic. This walks through gross internal area, the existing floorspace deduction, indexation and the forms, with an illustrative worked calculation on a small residential scheme.
A travel plan: section by section
A travel plan is a management document with targets, a named coordinator and a monitoring regime. Section by section, what it needs to survive monitoring.
A biodiversity gain plan: section by section
The biodiversity gain plan is submitted after permission and before development begins. Section by section, what it must contain and where authorities refuse them.
Drafting model wording for an external lighting condition
Most external lighting conditions fail on precision. Model wording that names the isolux drawing and luminaire schedule, sets limits at identified receptors, and requires post-installation verification.
Drafting model wording for a plant noise condition
Most plant noise conditions are unenforceable. They set a limit at the boundary, or ask for inaudibility, and nobody can say whether they have been complied with.
A photographic viewpoint schedule that stands up to scrutiny
Photographs win landscape and heritage arguments, or lose them. The difference is usually whether the viewpoints were agreed before the camera came out.
A pre-application enquiry: what to put in it and what to ask
A pre-application enquiry is worth what you put into it. Vague questions produce vague advice, and vague advice is useless six months later when the case officer has changed.
A discharge of conditions pack: what to submit and when
A decision notice is a work schedule in disguise. Sorting the conditions by trigger point before you order materials is what keeps a self-build on programme.
A householder application document checklist
Householder applications fail validation on paperwork rather than planning. This lists the national requirements under Article 7, the drawing conventions councils expect, and the local list items that catch people out.
Working out whether your application is major
The half hectare figure only applies where dwelling numbers are unknown, and the floorspace limb catches schemes the unit count does not. Two worked classifications and what follows from the answer.
A worked parking stress survey using the Lambeth method
The Lambeth methodology turns kerb measurements and overnight counts into a stress percentage. This shows the deductions, the timing rules and an illustrative calculation on a four section catchment.
A worked greenfield runoff rate calculation
The greenfield rate decides your discharge limit and therefore your storage volume. This shows the IH124 inputs, an illustrative calculation on a half hectare plot, and what the lead local flood authority checks.
Discharging planning conditions: the submission checklist
An application to approve details reserved by condition has its own form, fee and clock. Here is how to identify which conditions bite, what evidence each needs, and when the deemed discharge route helps.
Presenting net trip generation for a change of use
An illustrative net trip generation table and the notes around it: lawful use baseline, period selection, survey filters and how to handle a vacant building.
Class Q prior approval: assembling the submission
Class Q submissions fail on missing evidence. The gateway tests, the agricultural history bundle, the structural conclusion officers need and the drawing pack.
Sustainability Statement structure for a minor scheme
What belongs in a sustainability statement on a five to nine unit scheme, and what belongs in the energy statement instead, with a section order and a commitments table.
A worked biodiversity net gain calculation on a small site
An illustrative walkthrough of the statutory biodiversity metric on a 0.2 hectare plot, from baseline habitat parcels to the 10 per cent uplift and the gain plan.
Operational waste strategy for a restaurant or takeaway
Most operational waste strategies fail because the store was drawn before the volume was calculated. The streams, the arithmetic, the store details and the collection route, in submission order.
Flood risk assessment structure for a home in Flood Zone 2
A single dwelling in Flood Zone 2 needs the same section order as a major scheme at a fraction of the length. The document turns on the modelled level, the climate change uplift and the floor level.
Written representations appeal: documents and deadlines
The appeal pack is a fixed list and the deadlines are absolute. What to lodge with the form, what the council supplies, and how the written representations timetable runs from the start date letter.
Heritage Statement structure for a non-designated asset
For a locally listed house, the statement that works runs to about six pages and spends most of them on evidence. Here is the structure, section by section.
Documents for a full application for one new dwelling
A single plot application is refused validation for the same handful of reasons every time. Here is the pack, in the order a validation officer checks it.
Travel Plan structure for a small workplace
A small workplace travel plan fails for one of two reasons: targets nobody can measure, or measures nobody owns. Both are fixed at drafting stage.
Listed building consent: the drawings and documents to submit
Listed building consent applications are refused validation more often for missing drawings than for anything else. Here is the pack a conservation officer expects, item by item.
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