PlanScope Blog – Page 249
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9163 articlesTravel plan monitoring surveys and remedies
Most travel plans fail at monitoring because the survey cannot be compared with the baseline. Survey design, response rates, remedies and closing out.
Protected views and viewing corridors in decision taking
A designated view is geometry before it is judgement. Corridors, assessment points, verified views and the cumulative baseline that decides the answer.
Using TRICS data properly in a transport statement
Two consultants can derive trip rates for the same scheme that differ by a factor of two. Site selection, filters, mode share adjustment and the audit trail.
Extending a bungalow without losing the roofline
On a uniform bungalow estate the roof is the building. What councils look at when a ridge goes up, and the options that avoid the argument.
Firefighting shafts and how they shape a residential core
A firefighting shaft is a stair, lobby, fire main and lift working as one enclosure. How the triggers work and what the shaft does to core planning.
Daylight inside new flats compared with neighbours
A daylight report answers two different questions with two different sets of measures. Where schemes pass one and fail the other, and how officers read the results.
Circular economy statements: what the assessor checks
A reviewer traces every figure in a circular economy statement back to an audit or a drawing. What the targets measure and what counts as evidence.
Construction vibration: damage limits and human response
Peak particle velocity thresholds for building damage sit far above the levels at which residents complain. How to predict, monitor and manage the gap.
Tree protection barrier specification under BS 5837
What a tree protection barrier has to be built from, where it goes, and the installation and sign-off sequence that discharges a pre-commencement condition.
What Active Travel England looks for in an application
Active Travel England has been a statutory consultee since June 2023. What triggers the consultation, what the assessment scores and how to respond.
Listed building curtilage and what the listing captures
Curtilage decides whether a wall, stable or outbuilding is itself listed. The test, the pre 1948 cut-off and the evidence that settles it.
Checking a site against aerodrome safeguarding maps
Officially safeguarded aerodromes carry deposited maps that trigger statutory consultation on height, cranes, bird attractants and radar. Here is how to check a site and what to submit.
Wrap around extensions and light to the rooms you keep
A side return and rear extension built together take daylight from the rooms in the middle of the plan. Here is how to design around that, and what the council checks.
Article 4 directions on houses in multiple occupation
Converting a family house to a small shared house is permitted development until a council removes the right. How directions are made, how to check one, and what a C4 application must show.
Reading a CIL charging schedule and instalment policy
The printed rate is not the figure you pay. How zones, indexation, floorspace deductions and the commencement notice decide a levy liability.
Using historic mapping to build a site history
Successive map editions show what stood on a site, what was dug out and what was filled back in. How to build the chronology that drives a conceptual site model.
Future Homes Standard: advising on schemes in progress
A planning permission gives no protection against a Part L uplift. How transitional provisions have operated, and how to design a scheme that works under either standard.
BREEAM credits that depend on the planning decision
Many credits in a BREEAM pre-assessment are not in the design team's gift. Which ones the site and the decision notice control, and how to word the condition.
Combining noise, odour and air quality in one submission
Separate consultants produce mitigation that conflicts. Shared receptor schedules, a frozen layout and one coordinated conditions table prevent the holding objection.
Restaurant extraction ducts: routes and termination
A kitchen extract duct has to reach roof level through space you have the right to use. How routes, termination height, odour risk and plant noise decide a restaurant application.
Cycle parking: quantity, type and position on a scheme
Meeting the number is the easy part. How stand spacing, store position, cargo cycle space and access routes decide whether cycle parking is accepted.
Getting access onto a classified or trunk road approved
A new access engages the local highway authority, the strategic network operator, or both. What each can do, what evidence they want, and how long it takes.
Section 278 agreements: scope, cost and timing
The agreement that lets a developer build into an existing public highway. What it covers, how technical approval works, what it costs and why it sets the start date.
Archaeological Priority Areas in London and their tiers
London boroughs map archaeological potential in tiered priority areas. What the tier signals, when a desk-based assessment is a validation requirement, and why basements attract the heaviest requirements.
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