PlanScope Blog – Page 171
Practical guides to UK planning applications: which reports your council expects, permitted development, constraints, costs and how to prepare each document.
Articles – page 171
9336 articlesRestrictive covenant or planning condition: the difference
Planning permission does not release a restrictive covenant. Here is who enforces each restriction, how a covenant binds successors, and the routes to modification.
Reports needed for housing in Flood Zone 3a
Residential development in Flood Zone 3a engages both the sequential test and the exception test, whatever the scale. Here is the document bundle and the order to produce it in.
Grease and odour control in an extraction statement
The grease and odour section of an extraction statement has to link the cooking process to the filtration stages and the discharge point. Here is what environmental health officers look for.
Made ground: what fill on your site means in planning
Made ground is material placed by human activity rather than deposited naturally. It changes what might be in the ground, how it behaves under load and whether water will soak away.
Site set-up and demolition in a construction management plan
The site set-up and demolition sections describe what neighbours will experience first. Here is what belongs in them, which consents sit outside the planning permission, and how to word commitments an officer can check.
Source protection zones and infiltration drainage
Source protection zones decide whether surface water can go to ground. Here is how the zones are defined, what the regulator resists in each, and how contamination changes the answer.
Odour cordons around wastewater treatment works
A sewerage undertaker's cordon is a consultation position, not a designation. Site-specific odour modelling, a sensitivity-led layout and a mitigation schedule are what shift a holding objection.
Crane oversailing and land you do not control
Planning permission does not authorise a crane jib to cross a boundary. Here is where oversailing does engage the planning process, what a licence covers, and what to do when one cannot be obtained.
Vineyard and cider buildings: agriculture or processing
Fruit growing is agriculture. Making wine or cider from it may not be. The distinction decides whether a building can go ahead on a prior approval notification or needs full planning permission.
Adoption of SuDS: management company or section 104
Undertaker adoption, highway adoption, local authority adoption and private management each take different components on different terms. The route chosen shapes the drainage design, so settle it at concept stage.
HMO licensing or planning permission for a shared house
Five sharers triggers a mandatory licence. Seven takes the use outside Class C4. The thresholds do not line up, so work out both positions before buying or converting.
Reports needed when a transport assessment is triggered
Crossing the transport assessment threshold brings a package of documents, not one report. Here is what travels with it, how each is secured and what belongs in a scoping note to the highway authority.
Daylight distribution in a daylight and sunlight report
Daylight distribution measures how far skylight reaches into a room, which the vertical sky component cannot show. Here is how the no sky line is plotted, what governs it and how to report it.
Character corrections in a BS 4142 assessment
Acoustic feature corrections often decide a BS 4142 result. Here is what each correction is worth, how the judgement is made and recorded, and which design decisions avoid them altogether.
Article 4 directions removing agricultural permitted development
Where an Article 4 direction removes Part 6 rights, a farm building needs full planning permission instead of a prior approval notification. No fee is payable, but the design case has to be made properly.
Structural appraisal of a building proposed for retention
Authorities increasingly expect retention to be tested before demolition is proposed. Here is what the structural appraisal has to establish, how to compare the options fairly and how to present the conclusion.
Diverting a public footpath through a working farmyard
A farmyard diversion is applied for under section 119 of the Highways Act 1980 and turns on whether the replacement route is substantially less convenient. Here is how to build the case and the evidence pack.
Nutrient neutrality or water neutrality: which applies
Both constraints come from the Habitats Regulations and both can stop a residential scheme. One is about nutrient loading from wastewater, the other about abstraction pressure, and they need different calculations and mitigation.
Reports needed for a scheme at the ten unit major threshold
Ten dwellings makes a scheme major development. The determination period, the consultee list, the drainage evidence and the biodiversity route all change at once, and planning for it at nine units is much less expensive.
Occupancy accumulation in a parking survey
Counting parked cars is the easy part. Measuring usable kerb space, defining the catchment and choosing survey nights are what make a parking stress result stand up to a highway officer.
Insertion loss and how to specify it
Insertion loss describes what an attenuator, louvre or enclosure achieves in a given arrangement. Octave band data, regenerated noise and pressure drop decide whether the installed system will pass its commissioning test.
Cumulative downstream effects of a surface water discharge
Rate control is not volume control. Here is how in-combination surface water effects arise, how to assemble the committed development list and how to frame an assessment that a lead local flood authority can review.
Historic Environment Records: getting and using the data
A historic environment record search is the baseline for archaeological evidence on a plot. Here is who holds it, what to ask for, how to read the records and where the local data conflicts with national datasets.
Existing foundations and how deep a new basement can go
Basement depth is set by the foundations already in the ground. Here is what trial pits should establish, which depths trigger party wall notices, and where hand underpinning stops being viable.
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