Templates, Checklists and Examples – Page 6

Overheating Risk Assessment outline to the dynamic method

The dynamic route under Approved Document O stands or falls on the weather file and the window opening assumption. Here is the structure of a report that survives review.

Noise Impact Assessment outline for a mixed use scheme

A mixed use noise assessment carries three assessments in one report: transport noise inward, plant and servicing outward, and sound insulation between the uses.

Air Quality Assessment outline for residential in an AQMA

Inside an Air Quality Management Area the exposure of new occupiers decides the application. Here is the structure of the assessment and the inputs a reviewer checks.

Preliminary Ecological Appraisal outline and survey schedule

The further survey schedule is the part of a preliminary ecological appraisal that governs your programme. Here is the structure of the report and the seasonal windows behind each recommendation.

Arboricultural Impact Assessment outline to BS 5837

BS 5837 keeps the survey, the constraints, the impact and the protection method apart. A report that merges them cannot be checked against the drawings.

Travel Plan outline with monitoring targets

Targets, a named coordinator, dated surveys and a written consequence for missing them are what make a travel plan enforceable. The rest is optional.

Drainage Strategy outline with a worked runoff example

The section order a lead local flood authority expects in a drainage strategy, with one clearly illustrative runoff and attenuation calculation to show the method.

Flood Risk Assessment outline for a Flood Zone 2 scheme

A minor scheme in Flood Zone 2 needs a proportionate assessment, not a major site's model. Here is the section order that the Environment Agency and lead local flood authority expect, and what belongs in each.

Heritage Statement outline using the heritage values

A Heritage Statement that works starts with significance, not with the proposal. Assess the asset by value, test the contribution of setting, then measure the proposal against what you have found.

Planning Statement outline for a minor residential scheme

Eight to twelve pages, seven sections, and a conclusion the case officer can lift into their report. What each section of a minor scheme Planning Statement should contain.

Pre-submission validation self-audit for planning packs

An invalid application does not start the determination clock. This is the order to check a pack in, from the location plan red line to the fee category and the local list.

A design and access statement outline for a minor scheme

Amount, layout, scale, landscaping and appearance are a convention, not the legal requirement. What article 9 actually asks for, and a twelve page outline.

A heritage statement outline for a Grade II house

Describe what is special, then what you propose, then the effect of each on each. A working outline for a Grade II heritage statement, with the research sources.

A construction management plan checklist for a tight site

A construction management plan discharges a pre-commencement condition. Here is what to include for a tight urban site, and how it differs from a traffic management plan.

An objection letter structure that officers can summarise

Your objection survives only in the officer's summary of it. Three points, each tied to a material consideration and supported by something checkable, is what summarises well.

A travel plan target table that can be monitored

A travel plan target only works if an officer can tell three years later whether it was met. Four columns, a fixed survey method and a remedial schedule are what make that possible.

An internal quality check before anything leaves the office

Validation rejections usually come from numbers that disagree between documents. This is the twenty minute cross-check that catches them, and a one page sheet to initial before upload.

A listed building consent submission checklist

Listed building consent is a separate consent with no fee, assessed against the section 16(2) duty. This is the document set that satisfies it, and the level of detail a schedule of works has to reach.

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A Class Q prior approval submission checklist

Class Q is decided on a closed list of matters in 56 days. The submission that succeeds proves the building qualifies and can be converted without rebuilding.

The first month after planning permission: what to do

Permission granted is not permission usable. Work through the decision notice, the conditions triggers, the CIL forms and the material start before the digger arrives.

A neighbour consultation letter before you submit

A letter a fortnight before submission gives neighbours the information first and gives you their concerns while the drawings can still move.

An illustrative worked example of the 45 degree test

The 45 degree test is local guidance rather than national policy. Here is how it is drawn, where councils differ, and a worked illustrative example.

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A tree protection plan checklist to BS 5837

A tree protection plan is a scale drawing that has to survive contact with the engineer's layout. Here is what it must show and the checks to run before submission.

Writing a non-technical summary anyone can act on

The non-technical summary is required by the EIA Regulations and is the only part of the environmental statement most consultees open. Written as a compressed technical document, it fails both jobs.