PlanScope Blog – Page 125
Practical guides to UK planning applications: which reports your council expects, permitted development, constraints, costs and how to prepare each document.
Articles – page 125
9420 articlesBuilding safety gateway costs for a higher risk building
The gateway fee is the smallest part of the cost. The design information, the float between approval and start, and change control are what move an appraisal.
Checklist: evidence pack for a bat mitigation licence
A licence application fails on the three tests or on survey effort, rarely on the mitigation design. Here is what each part of the pack has to carry.
Planning permission for shepherd's huts used as glamping
Most owners rely on an exemption that does not do what they think it does. Here is the difference between the licensing rules and the planning position.
Hoarding, crane and oversail sections of a management plan
These three sections commit you to things planning cannot grant. Here is what each has to show and which consent actually delivers it.
Reports for a crematorium or burial ground extension
Groundwater risk and cremator emissions decide these applications. Both sit partly outside planning, and both need commissioning before the layout is fixed.
Planning permission for extra flats on a block roof
The planning route for airspace flats is the straightforward half. Title, leaseholder notices and the levy are what stop schemes after permission is granted.
Collision data sections and how to read them
A collision record with no pattern in it proves very little. Here is how the section is built, what the severity figures hide, and when the data supports mitigation.
Reports for a two storey roof extension to a flat block
Whether the prior approval route is open decides which reports you need. Here is the evidence pack for a two storey upward extension either way.
Who can prepare a health impact assessment
There is no licence for health impact assessment. What matters is whether the author can handle public health evidence and answer the policy that triggered it.
A barn used as a wedding venue and the 28-day limit
The 28-day rule applies to land, not to barns. That single point decides whether a wedding barn is lawful or waiting for an enforcement notice.
Worked example: sequential test for an edge of centre site
An illustrative sequential assessment of three candidate sites, showing how suitability, availability and flexibility are argued and where assessments fail.
Planning permission for a nursery in a residential area
Nursery applications are won on the drop-off plan and lost on the parking survey. Here is the evidence that answers the two objections officers always receive.
Visibility splay calculations and the standards behind them
A splay is two numbers and a triangle, but both numbers come from a survey rather than the speed limit. Here is how the calculation is built and defended.
Which reports a dog day care business needs
Barking is the only issue that really decides a dog day care application. Here is the evidence that answers it, and the documents you can safely leave out.
Who can certify a drainage design for adoption
Nobody holds a statutory licence to certify a drainage design. What matters is the undertaker's design check, the designer's indemnity and the as-built record.
A trade counter in a storage and distribution unit
Trade counters live inside a condition, not inside a use class. Here is how the cap is worded, what happens when sales grow, and what to read before you commit.
Worked example: swept path check for a refuse vehicle
An illustrative turning head check for a refuse collection vehicle, from fleet dimensions through to the drawing the highway authority signs off.
Planning permission for static holiday lodges on farmland
Whether a lodge is a caravan or a building decides half the application. The other half is landscape effect and the occupancy condition you will live with.
How to read a swept path analysis appendix
Swept path drawings are the appendix nobody reads until the highway officer objects. Here is what the lines mean and where the weaknesses usually are.
Which reports a funeral directors in a former bank needs
Moving a funeral directors into a former bank may not need permission for the use at all. The works, the hearse access and the mortuary ventilation are a different matter.
Who is competent to design a commercial kitchen extract system
An installer who has fitted a hundred canopies is not the same as a designer. Here is what the planning submission needs and who has to stand behind it.
A filling station shop and the ancillary floorspace limit
Forecourt shops grow until a condition stops them. Here is how the ancillary test works, how floorspace caps are worded, and the route to varying one.
Checklist: noise survey design for a mixed use scheme
A noise survey that cannot be repeated cannot be defended. This checklist covers positions, duration, instrumentation and the records a reviewer will ask for.
Planning permission for an equestrian arena with floodlighting
Keeping horses is not agriculture in planning terms, so an arena and its lighting both need permission. Here is how the application is judged in open countryside.
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