Templates, Checklists and Examples – Page 3
Section outlines, validation checklists and clearly labelled illustrative examples.
Templates, Checklists and Examples articles – page 3
250 articlesWhat a county archaeologist expects with your application
The council's archaeological adviser writes the consultation response your case officer relies on. Here is the evidence they expect, in the form they expect it, and the order to produce it in.
Section outline: design and access statement for an infill plot
A single plot statement should run to eight or twelve pages and answer one question: why this house, on this plot, in this street, at this size.
Worked example: daylight distribution and the no-sky line
An illustrative worked example of the no-sky line, the 0.8 times former area test, and why room geometry rather than the proposal often drives the result.
Worked example: attenuation storage volume for a driveway
An illustrative storage volume calculation for a domestic driveway, how a soakaway is sized from an infiltration rate, and when front garden surfacing needs permission.
Worked example: BS 4142 rating level arithmetic
Rating level minus background is the number a BS 4142 assessment turns on. This illustrative worked example shows how each quantity is derived and how mitigation at source changes the answer.
Worked example: parking stress survey arithmetic
Parking stress is occupancy divided by kerbside capacity. This illustrative worked example shows the deductions, the 5.5 metre module, the survey timing and how the final percentage is read.
Checklist: what a lead local flood authority asks for
Lead local flood authorities are statutory consultees on surface water drainage for major development. Here is the information they expect, and the gaps that produce a holding objection.
Section outline: planning statement for a change of use
A change of use statement has to establish the lawful existing use before it argues anything else. Seven sections in the order a case officer reads them.
Checklist: evidence for a section 191 certificate on a use
A certificate of lawfulness for an existing use is won on evidence you supply. The categories that count, how to draft a statutory declaration and how to deal with gaps in the record.
Worked internal daylight check for a lower ground flat
A worked internal daylight check for a lower ground floor flat lit from a light well, with every input stated, the result against BS EN 17037 and average daylight factor, and the design changes that matter.
Basement impact screening checklist for a terraced house
Most councils with a basement policy want a screening check before any assessment. Here are the questions they ask about groundwater, surface water, movement and trees, and what triggers the full report.
Evidencing continuous use of a rural building: a checklist
Permitted development routes for agricultural buildings turn on use on a qualifying date, and the burden of proof is yours. Here is the documentary bundle that carries it.
Recording a shopfront before alteration
A shopfront record satisfies the recording condition and gives your designer the evidence to justify the new work. Here is what to measure, photograph and deposit, and when to do it.
Worked open space contribution from an adopted standard
An open space contribution is occupancy times the adopted standard, priced for provision and maintenance. Here is the calculation worked through for six dwellings, with illustrative rates.
Travel plan for a rural employer with no bus service
Where there is no bus service, a travel plan has to carry its mode shift through car sharing, shift patterns and home working. Here is the structure that survives monitoring.
Amended plans during determination: a submission checklist
The decision notice conditions whatever drawing numbers are on the plans list. Here is how to revise drawings mid-determination without ending up with a permission nobody can build from.
Worked play space calculation for a forty home scheme
Start with children, not square metres. This works through child yield, the per child standard, age group provision and when a commuted sum is defensible.
Waste and recycling storage schedule for a flatted scheme
The schedule has to agree with the drawing. This sets out the capacity calculation, container footprints, store requirements and the drag distance that decides the layout.
Schedule of conditions to negotiate before a committee
A condition agreed in draft costs a phone call; the same condition imposed at committee costs a section 73 application. This is the schedule to work through, in order.
Survey brief for a bat emergence programme on a barn
A two page brief that tells the ecologist how many emergence visits you are buying, what weather aborts a visit and what the report must contain, before you compare quotes.
Worked trip generation for a nine dwelling cul-de-sac
Nine houses generate a handful of movements in the peak hour. How to select comparator sites, derive a rate per dwelling, and present an illustrative calculation honestly.
Site set up checklist before works begin on a treed plot
Protective fencing goes up before demolition, clearance or the first delivery. The conditions to discharge, the fencing specification, and the sequence that signs a site off.
Receptor selection for a daylight study in a terraced street
Receptor selection decides a daylight result before modelling starts. The screening test, room hierarchy, multi-window rules and an illustrative schedule for eight houses.
Pre-application enquiry pack for a rural conversion
A pre-application response is only as good as the questions you ask. The plans, photographs, constraints table and numbered questions that get a usable written answer on a rural conversion.
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