Which Reports Do I Need articles – page 18

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Which reports for demolition and rebuild of one house

Demolishing and rebuilding a dwelling brings rules an extension never touches, including biodiversity net gain. The documents to assemble and the order to do it in.

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Which reports for a gym in a Class E industrial unit

A gym in an industrial unit turns on structure-borne noise and employment land policy. What the assessment must cover and why marketing evidence is usually the missing item.

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Which reports for a hot food takeaway application

A takeaway sits outside every use class, so the application is a full case on merits. What to submit on extraction, odour, noise, parking and delivery riders.

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Which reports for a Green Belt house extension

The Green Belt extension test compares your proposal against the original dwelling, not the house you bought. How to document the baseline and which reports actually earn their place.

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Which reports for works to a Grade II listed house

Two consents, one evidence pack. What a Grade II listed house application needs, how to record significance properly, and the curtilage rule that catches owners out.

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Which reports for a rear extension in a conservation area

Conservation area status changes the evidence you must supply for a rear extension more than it changes the size limits. Here is the pack that gets validated first time.

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Reserved matters on a self-build plot with outline consent

After outline consent come two separate applications: reserved matters and discharge of conditions. Here is what each needs, and the CIL paperwork you cannot fix later.

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Which reports student accommodation schemes need

PBSA sits outside the use classes, so every scheme is judged on its merits. Here is the evidence base, from car-free management to daylight in single-aspect study bedrooms.

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Which reports a 60-bed care home application needs

A 60-bed home is major development on floorspace and site area, not on dwelling numbers. Here is the evidence base, and the two work streams that set the submission date.

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Which reports a 20 ha solar farm application needs

A 20 hectare array is Schedule 2 development, so screening and the soil survey come before the layout. Here is the evidence base and the order to commission it in.

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Which reports a telecoms mast prior approval needs

A Part 16 submission is not a planning application. Here is what the council may consider, what the ICNIRP declaration does, and the visual evidence that decides the 56 days.

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Which reports a place of worship in a Class E unit needs

A worship use in a shop, office or industrial unit is a change between use classes. Here is the peak-hour parking evidence, the noise work and the employment land argument that decide it.

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Which reports a day nursery in a former house needs

There is no permitted development route from a dwelling to a day nursery. Here is the noise assessment that actually works, the parking evidence highway officers look for, and the conditions to expect.

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Which reports a farm shop and cafe application needs

A farm shop with a cafe usually needs full permission, and the sequential test, highway evidence and extraction case decide it. Here is the document pack a rural diversification application is built on.

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Which reports for a petrol station redevelopment to homes

On a former forecourt the contamination work sets the programme and the cost. Everything else in the application waits on what the intrusive investigation finds.

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Which reports for an 18 m residential block

At 18 metres or seven storeys a residential block becomes a relevant building for Planning Gateway One, and the Health and Safety Executive becomes a statutory consultee.

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Which reports for a basement under a Victorian terrace

Basements have their own local policy and their own report. The Basement Impact Assessment covers hydrology, hydrogeology and stability, and it is where the application is won or lost.

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Which reports for a barn conversion under Class Q

Class Q prior approval is decided on a fixed list of matters. The application usually turns on whether the building can be converted rather than rebuilt.

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Which reports for a house to six-bed HMO application

A six-bedroom HMO sits right on the line between C4 and sui generis. Which side you land on decides whether you need permission at all, and what evidence comes with it.

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Which reports for a shop to restaurant change of use

A shop and a restaurant both sit in Class E, so the use change alone is not development. The application, when there is one, is about the extraction flue and what comes out of it.

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Which reports Class MA office to flats prior approval needs

A council can only refuse Class MA prior approval on the matters the Order lists. Evidence each one and the application is hard to refuse. Assert them and it is easy.

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Reports for 12 homes on a greenfield village-edge site

Crossing ten units changes the determination period, the consultees and the affordable housing position. On a village edge the landscape and heritage evidence decides the rest.

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Reports for one new dwelling in Flood Zone 2

In Flood Zone 2 a dwelling is more vulnerable development and is appropriate, so the exception test does not apply. The work is the site-specific assessment, the sequential test and the drainage.

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Which reports a garden annexe for a parent needs

An annexe that is ancillary to the house is a householder application with a short document set. A separate dwelling brings CIL, biodiversity net gain and a full application.

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