PlanScope Blog – Page 214
Practical guides to UK planning applications: which reports your council expects, permitted development, constraints, costs and how to prepare each document.
Articles – page 214
9225 articlesBudgeting a whole life carbon assessment
Three things drive the price of a whole life carbon assessment, and the fee rate is the last of them. How to scope the brief before asking for quotes.
Defining a sequential test search area on a rural site
The sequential test is usually lost on the area of search rather than the sites. How to define it, agree it and record the evidence, with an illustrative example.
A wedding venue in a farm building: the application
Why a barn wedding venue needs a full change of use application, and how the noise, dispersal, parking and drainage evidence decides it.
Documents for an agricultural building over the Part 6 limits
The ground area, height and siting limits that end the prior notification route, and what a full planning application for a large farm building has to contain.
Utilities capacity evidence for a residential scheme
What a utilities assessment has to prove, how to raise pre-development enquiries that produce usable answers, and why substation land take decides layouts.
Following an application through the public register
Documents appear on the planning register without notice, plans get replaced and consultee letters arrive weeks apart. How to follow a case properly.
General industrial to storage and distribution: B2 to B8
Why a B2 to B8 change usually needs a planning application, and how the traffic, noise and employment land evidence decides it.
Reading a consultant CV for real competence
Chartered status certifies a competence framework, not competence for your report. What to check on a consultant CV before you appoint, and what to ask for in writing.
Permitted development in a National Park: what still applies
National Parks are article 2(3) land, which removes several householder rights outright and tightens others. A class by class look at what is left.
Budgeting for CIL and the exemption paperwork
The levy is arithmetic, the exemption is administration, and it is the administration that goes wrong. How to budget for both, including the surcharge risk.
Waste management strategy outline for a mixed-use block
The eight sections an operational waste strategy needs for a block with flats over commercial units, and what each one has to contain for the case officer.
Expanding a poultry unit: the evidence you will need
Why most poultry expansions need a full application rather than a prior notification, and what the ammonia, odour, manure and traffic evidence has to show.
Reports for a scheme with a private water supply
What a planning application has to show when the dwelling will be served by a borehole, spring or shared supply, and how the foul drainage evidence fits alongside it.
Waste storage calculations in a waste management strategy
The bin store sum that planning officers actually check, from generation rates and container volumes to drag distance, vehicle access and the drawings the strategy must cross-refer to.
Evidence for a retail sequential test that survives scrutiny
A sequential test is a documentary audit before it is an argument. Here is how to agree the catchment, show flexibility, and record why each site was discounted.
Documents for a scheme affecting a public right of way
A path on the definitive map needs its own legal order before you build across it. Here are the two document bundles, the tests each one meets, and the timescales.
Sound insulation content for flats above a licensed premises
Measure the pub on its noisiest lawful night, not a quiet one. Here is what the acoustic report must contain, from spectral source data to verification testing.
Consent for an illuminated shopfront sign
Signs run under their own regulations with only two tests. Here is when express consent is needed, what to submit for an illuminated display, and what enforcement looks like.
A Travel Plan a monitoring officer can enforce
Promises to encourage sustainable travel cannot be monitored. Here is how to set baselines, targets, survey methods and remedial measures that an obligation can actually secure.
Documents for a scheme in a nutrient neutrality catchment
In an affected catchment, permission waits on an appropriate assessment. Here is the evidence base that supports it, how credits work, and where a scheme cannot proceed.
Highways objections a neighbour can actually evidence
Highway objections fail when they describe inconvenience. These are the points councils can act on, and the evidence a resident can gather to support them.
Light industrial and office uses inside Class E(g)
Offices, laboratories and light industry share one sub class with free movement between them. The amenity test in E(g)(iii) is where occupiers come unstuck.
Professional indemnity insurance to require from a consultant
The policy that responds is the one in force when the claim is notified, not when the report was written. Here is what to specify and what to read on the certificate.
Permitted development alongside a live planning permission
A live permission does not switch off permitted development, and using permitted development does not invalidate the permission. The limits are conditions and physical impossibility.
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