Templates, Checklists and Examples – Page 9

Outline planning application checklist: matters to reserve

Access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale are the five matters you can reserve. Which you hold over decides what you must draw now, what conditions you get, and how much flexibility the permission keeps.

A worked example of a drainage hierarchy decision

An illustrative infiltration test calculation, the evidence needed to rule infiltration out, and the record a lead local flood authority expects on a small site.

A checklist before submitting a prior approval application

Prior approval confirms specified matters for development already permitted by the Order. Here is what to establish before submitting, and how deemed consent works.

A structure for a design and access statement that works

How to organise a design and access statement so a case officer can lift the argument straight into the report, and what to leave out of it.

A checklist for a travel plan with measurable targets

Baseline, targets, coordinator, monitoring and remedial triggers. The five parts of a travel plan that decide whether it survives past the decision notice.

A worked overshadowing test for a garden

A step by step sunlight on ground test for a rear garden, using the BRE 209 equinox criterion, with an illustrative calculation and the changes that recover a failing result.

A scoping checklist for a noise survey brief

Most disputes about noise evidence come from a survey that measured the wrong thing in the wrong week. A checklist for briefing an acoustician before any equipment goes on site.

A checklist for a biodiversity gain plan submission

The gain plan is submitted after permission and before work starts. Which exemptions apply to small and self-build sites, what evidence the plan needs and why plans get refused.

A photographic viewpoint schedule for landscape work

Viewpoint photography is the evidence base for a landscape and visual assessment. The selection process, the recording conventions and the presentation that survives scrutiny.

A template structure for a construction management plan

A construction management plan is a condition document. This is the section order officers read it in, from compound layout and routing to wheel washing, noisy operations and complaints.

A checklist for ownership certificates and notices

The ownership certificate is the shortest part of a planning application and the one most likely to invalidate it. Here is how to check title, choose the right certificate and serve notice properly.

A pre-application submission checklist for a minor scheme

Pre-application advice is only as good as the pack you send. Here is the drawing set, site information and question list that turns a minor scheme enquiry into a usable written response.

An outline for an appeal statement of case

A written representations appeal is decided on what you file at the start. This is the structure that answers each reason for refusal, handles policy weight and keeps a costs application open.

An evidence checklist for a lawful development certificate

The applicant carries the burden on the balance of probabilities. Here is the evidence that works, how to build the chronology, and the gaps that cause refusal.

A checklist for a section 73 variation application

Section 73 varies conditions and creates a new permission alongside the original. Here is the wording, the documents, the consultation scope and the CIL consequences.

A validation checklist for a full planning application

Applications are validated against the national list in article 7 and the council's own local list. Here is what both contain, plus the drawing conventions that cause returns.

A worked parking stress survey for an urban site

Parking stress is parked vehicles divided by usable kerb capacity. Here is the catchment, the deductions, the survey timing and a worked calculation officers will accept.

A condition compliance schedule for the build

A planning decision notice is a programme document. Here is how to turn its conditions into a schedule with triggers, owners, evidence and lead times, and what the completion pack should contain.

A community engagement plan for a contested scheme

Consultation after the design is fixed is presentation, not engagement. Here is how to plan, run and report community engagement on a scheme that is going to be opposed.

Writing the alternatives considered section of a statement

Most planning applications carry no duty to consider alternatives. EIA development does, and so do a handful of policy tests. Here is how to tell them apart and how to write the section.

A householder appeal on the twelve week route

Householder appeals must be lodged within 12 weeks of the decision notice, and nothing can be added afterwards. Everything you rely on goes in with the appeal form.

A statement of case for a written representations appeal

In a written representations appeal the statement is your entire case. Structure it around the reasons for refusal, attach the evidence, and offer drafted conditions.

A schedule of drawings that officers can follow

The drawing schedule tells the validation officer what was submitted, tells the case officer which version they are assessing, and ends up as the legal content of the approved plans condition.

A worked gross internal area measurement for thresholds

Floorspace thresholds in English planning are expressed in gross internal area, and the difference between measurement bases can move a scheme across the major development line. A worked example with the inclusions and exclusions set out.