PlanScope Blog – Page 68
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9524 articlesPermission to convert a hotel to residential use
There is no permitted development route from Class C1 to Class C3. A hotel conversion turns on the policy protecting visitor accommodation and the evidence it demands.
Reports for a holiday lodge park in open countryside
A static lodge park in the countryside needs landscape, ecology, drainage, access and lighting evidence as standard. Here is what each document has to prove.
Betterment and worsement in flood risk terms
Betterment is a reduction in the rate or volume of surface water leaving a site after development. Here is where the requirement comes from and how a discharge rate is actually fixed.
Permission to redevelop a petrol filling station
A former filling station is a contaminated land project with a planning application attached. Here is the order to do the work in, from preliminary risk assessment through tank removal to the verification report.
Reports for a floating home or houseboat mooring
Planning permission and navigation authority consent run in parallel on a residential mooring, and neither guarantees the other. Here is the evidence base, and the occupancy condition that decides the business case.
Local land charges and a planning search
The local land charges register records section 106 obligations, enforcement notices and tree preservation orders. It records nothing about live investigations or unauthorised works, which is where the risk sits.
Permission to convert a chapel to a house
A chapel conversion is decided by whether the interior volume survives the insertion of floors and whether a burial ground lies in the curtilage. Here is the order to do the work in, and the detailing that gets consent.
Permission to convert a water tower to a dwelling
A water tower conversion is a full application, and bats and curtilage decide it. Here is the order to commission the work, the survey window that sets the programme and the design approach that gets consented.
Permission to reopen a closed pub as a village shop
A pub is a sui generis use and the permitted development route to retail was removed in 2017, so a village shop conversion needs full permission. Here is how to answer the policies that protect pubs.
Permission for a livestock building and its permit
An intensive livestock unit is decided by ammonia deposition on designated habitats and the environmental permit that runs beside the planning application. Here are the thresholds, the mitigation that works and the order to do the work in.
Reports for a cemetery extension on agricultural land
A burial ground extension is decided by the hydrogeological risk assessment and the soils evidence rather than by an ordinary drainage pack. Here is the order to commission the work and the setbacks to design around.
Reports for a mobile home and park homes site
Permanent residential park homes are classified as highly vulnerable to flooding, which rules out many sites before the layout is drawn. Here is the evidence base for planning and for the separate site licence.
Reports for a rooftop beehive and urban agriculture scheme
Hives and planters may need no permission, but greenhouses, stairs and parapet changes do. Here is the evidence a rooftop growing scheme needs, starting with the structural capacity that shapes the whole design.
Reports for a padel court on a school playing field
A court on a school playing field is decided by the statutory sport consultee more than by ordinary amenity policy. Here is the evidence that answers Sport England, from pitch run-offs to floodlighting curfews.
Species licence returns and a consultant's track record
A mitigation licence ends when the returns and monitoring are complete, not when the works finish. Here is what the conditions require, why a consultant's compliance record is a programme risk, and the questions to ask before appointing.
What a chartered title does not cover
Chartered membership shows assessed competence in a broad field and a code of conduct. It does not show that someone has produced your document before. Here is what actually decides competence, report type by report type.
When junior staff are the right people for the work
Most of a planning evidence base is data collection and policy assembly, which supervised junior staff do well. Here is where professional judgement cannot be delegated, and how to check the supervision is real.
Checklist for a larger home extension prior approval
A single storey rear extension deeper than 3m on a semi, or 4m on a detached house, needs prior approval under Class A. Here are the limits, the information to supply and how the neighbour consultation timetable works.
Checklist for responding to an invalid application notice
Until an application is validated there is no determination clock. Here is how to sort each item on an invalidity notice, decline requests that are not on the published local list, and protect the validation date.
Checklist for a written representations appeal bundle
A paper appeal is read once, in order, without you there. Here is how to structure the statement of case, build a numbered core documents list and index the bundle so every assertion is checkable.
Applying for an award of costs at appeal
An award of costs at planning appeal turns on unreasonable behaviour that caused wasted expense, not on the outcome. Here is the test, when to apply, how partial awards work and which evidence persuades.
Budgeting a written representations appeal
Lodging a section 78 appeal costs nothing, so the budget is all preparation. Here is how the written representations procedure works, what drives the cost, and when a revised application is the better buy.
Reading a council pre-application charging schedule
Pre-application advice charges are set by each council, not by the national fee regulations. Here is how to read the bands, spot what a band excludes, and frame questions that produce a usable answer.
Section 192 certificates and the half fee rule
The fee for a section 192 certificate of lawfulness for proposed development is half the corresponding planning application fee. Here is what the certificate can confirm, how precisely to describe the proposal, and when a planning application is the better buy.
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