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The document bundle your council will expect for each kind of project.
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434 articlesWhich reports a site of exactly half a hectare triggers
Half a hectare is a fallback limb in the major development definition, not a test in its own right. Here is what site area really triggers, and what it does not.
Evidence base for a 150 dwelling site
A 150 dwelling scheme crosses the Active Travel England consultation threshold and sits against the Schedule 2 urban development indicators. This is the evidence base and the programme behind it.
Which reports nine dwellings need and which ten do
At ten dwellings an application becomes major, with a longer period, wider publicity and an affordable housing requirement. Biodiversity, flood and ecology evidence does not change.
Mezzanine in a warehouse: which planning documents apply
Most warehouse mezzanines are internal works and need no permission. The exceptions are retail buildings over a statutory threshold, hidden changes of use and restrictive conditions.
Car park redevelopment documents for a housing scheme
Redeveloping an operational car park for homes turns on two risks: the parking you are removing and the contamination the tarmac has been hiding. Here is how to scope the evidence.
Document bundle for an electric vehicle charging hub
A charging hub is a small building operation with a large electrical installation, and the installation shapes the application: connection evidence, substation space, lighting and transformer noise.
Documents for a telecoms mast under Part 16
The Order requires only a description, a location plan and the fee. Everything else you submit exists to make the chosen position and design defensible on siting and appearance.
Documents for a place of worship in an industrial unit
Two issues decide these applications: whether losing employment floorspace is acceptable, and whether parking works at peak congregation time. The rest is manageable with a management plan.
Document bundle for a holiday let change of use
Short-term letting may or may not be a material change of use. Where it is, the bundle runs on a Planning Statement, proof of the existing lawful use and a management plan officers can condition.
Document bundle for a dropped kerb and off street parking
A driveway needs a crossover licence from the highway authority and, depending on the road class and the surfacing, a planning application too. Here is the evidence each one wants.
Document bundle for a self-contained annexe in a garden
Whether a garden annexe is ancillary accommodation or a new dwelling decides the application type, the drawings and the fee. Here is the evidence that settles it and the document pack that follows.
Documents for a retail unit above the impact threshold
The sequential test has no threshold. The impact assessment has one, set locally or defaulting to 2,500 square metres. Here is what each document has to contain.
Documents for a new access onto a classified road
There is no permitted development route onto an A, B or C road. Here is the evidence the highway authority expects, and the separate consents that follow permission.
Document bundle for stables and an equestrian arena
Keeping horses for riding or livery falls outside the agricultural definition, so Part 6 rights do not help. Here is the bundle a stables and arena application actually needs.
Document bundle for a Green Belt infill plot
A Green Belt infill application stands or falls on which exception it relies on. Here is the evidence each one needs, and the drawings that decide whether a gap counts as infilling.
Documents for a scheme in a National Landscape
Development inside a National Landscape needs landscape and visual evidence, a lighting response designed for dark skies, detailed materials information and ecology survey work.
Documents for a site inside an air quality management area
A declaration under Part IV of the Environment Act 1995 lowers the threshold for assessment and raises the expectation of mitigation. The documents a scheme inside a management area should carry.
Documents for a site with a protected tree on the frontage
A protected tree on the front boundary brings a BS 5837 survey, a constraints plan, an impact assessment and a method statement into the application, plus a separate consent for works to the tree itself.
Document bundle for a site in Flood Zone 3a
Flood Zone 3a puts a new dwelling into the exception test, and the sequential test comes first. The evidence each document needs, and the conditions that follow consent.
Document bundle for a house to small HMO conversion
Where an Article 4 direction has withdrawn the C3 to C4 right, a small HMO needs a full application. The drawings, amenity evidence and parking survey that go with it.
Document bundle for a site of half a hectare or more
Residential development on 0.5 hectares or more is major development where the unit count is unknown, which changes publicity, determination periods and the evidence base. Here is what the area trigger actually adds.
Documents for 1,000 m² of new commercial floorspace
A thousand square metres of commercial floorspace makes a scheme major development, bringing thirteen weeks, newspaper publicity and the lead local flood authority as a consultee.
Document bundle for a fifty dwelling residential scheme
At around fifty dwellings the transport evidence steps up from a statement to a modelled assessment, and community involvement becomes an expected submission rather than a courtesy.
Document bundle for a scheme crossing the ten dwelling mark
At ten dwellings a scheme becomes major development. That brings a thirteen week period, the lead local flood authority as a statutory consultee and the full statutory biodiversity metric.
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