Templates, Checklists and Examples – Page 2
Section outlines, validation checklists and clearly labelled illustrative examples.
Templates, Checklists and Examples articles – page 2
250 articlesA biodiversity net gain statement outline for a small site
What belongs in the net gain statement at application stage and what waits for the gain plan after permission. Exemptions, the small sites metric route and the baseline that drives everything.
Section by section outline for a householder planning statement
Officers read householder statements looking for specific answers in a predictable order. This outline gives them in that order, with the numbers and policy tests a case officer has to check.
Fire statement content at Planning Gateway One
A Gateway One fire statement is a prescribed form, not a bespoke report. What belongs in each section, from appliance access and water supplies to the evacuation strategy and the author declaration.
Worked example: room selection for an overheating assessment
A dynamic overheating model does not need every room, but the sample has to bracket the worst case. A worked room selection for an eight-storey block.
What to submit with a section 73 application
Section 73 lets the authority consider only the condition. Three documents decide the outcome, and the section 106 obligations do not follow the new permission on their own.
Cycle parking numbers from a policy standard, worked
Cycle parking calculations fail on the wrong unit of measurement, merged long and short stay, and a floor area taken from a rate instead of a drawn layout.
Lighting assessment for a sports pitch: section outline
Floodlighting assessments are read zone first, limits second and curfew third. This is the section order that survives consultation, and what each part has to carry.
Worked example: canopy cover percentage for a site
Canopy cover is the plan area of tree crowns as a percentage of site area. An illustrative worked calculation, the rules on overlaps and exclusions, and how to report it.
Section outline: odour assessment for a hot food use
An odour assessment for a takeaway or restaurant follows a fixed logic: the menu, the receptors, the risk grade, then the duct route and abatement that answer it.
Checklist: photographic evidence for a planning appeal
A small, ordered set of recorded viewpoints does more for a householder appeal than extra argument. The conventions inspectors expect, and the 12-week deadline that fixes the set.
Worked example: self-build exemption paperwork for the levy
An illustrative run through the Community Infrastructure Levy self-build exemption forms, in the order the regulations require, with the surcharges that follow a missed step.
Section outline: transport statement for a 40 dwelling scheme
At 40 dwellings most schemes fall below the transport assessment threshold and need a transport statement instead. Here is the section structure a highway officer expects and the order to write it in.
Checklist: preparing for a planning committee presentation
There is no national right to speak at a planning committee, so the first job is finding that authority's own scheme. Then you have around three minutes, and the structure of them matters more than the content.
Worked example: internal illuminance target check for a flat
Climate based daylight modelling reports whether a target illuminance is met across half the room for half the daylight hours. Here is how the calculation is set up and what an illustrative single aspect flat produces.
Checklist: what a highway authority wants with a new access
Most highway objections come from a splay drawn by eye and no speed survey. The drawings, dimensions and ownership evidence that get a new access approved first time.
Worked example: sun on ground assessment on 21 March
A garden can meet the 50 per cent sunlight test and still fail the 0.8 proportional loss limb. An illustrative worked overlay from 9am to 3pm, with the arithmetic and the assumptions set out.
Worked example: air quality damage cost calculation
The damage cost approach turns a scheme's extra emissions into a pound figure a council can ask for. An illustrative worked example, the inputs it needs, and where dispersion modelling takes over.
Checklist: evidence pack for a bat mitigation licence
A licence application fails on the three tests or on survey effort, rarely on the mitigation design. Here is what each part of the pack has to carry.
Worked example: sequential test for an edge of centre site
An illustrative sequential assessment of three candidate sites, showing how suitability, availability and flexibility are argued and where assessments fail.
Worked example: swept path check for a refuse vehicle
An illustrative turning head check for a refuse collection vehicle, from fleet dimensions through to the drawing the highway authority signs off.
Checklist: noise survey design for a mixed use scheme
A noise survey that cannot be repeated cannot be defended. This checklist covers positions, duration, instrumentation and the records a reviewer will ask for.
Viability appraisal inputs and assumptions: a section outline
Appraisals rarely fail on arithmetic. They fail on the justification for each input, which is why the section order and the evidence attached to it matter.
What to submit with a Class MA prior approval application
Prior approval under Class MA is deliberately narrow. Applications fail on an unaddressed prescribed matter or on thin evidence of the two-year Class E use, not on design.
Annual probable sunlight hours: a worked example
Annual probable sunlight hours applies only to windows facing within 90 degrees of due south, and a loss counts as noticeable only when all three BRE limbs are satisfied.
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