Application checklist
Why do I have make sure I include everything when I apply for planning permission?
As part of our aim of trying to continuously improve services, we are trying to make sure that applications for planning permission (and other types of consent) contain all the information we need to make a decision from the point at which they are registered. This not only helps us to deal with the application efficiently, it also makes sure that third party consultees can have a full picture of what is being proposed. In the long run this should help you get a speedier decision.
What will you do when we receive an application?
When we receive your application, it will be checked for accuracy and for the fullness of the information supplied. It will not be registered if relevant information is missing. To get an application form for Planning Permission, please contact our reception or download it from this site.
What should I provide when I submit my application?
It will help if, before you submit your application, you check the following
- Have you read the guidance notes?
- Have you used the correct forms with at least one original? Is the development described fully and accurately?
- Are the forms signed and dated?
- Are all relevant questions on the form answered accurately?
- Is the correct certificate signed and dated (and the appropriate agricultural tenancy statement dated)?
- Is the correct fee enclosed?
- Is there a clear, scaled location plan with the site identified in red?
- Are you supplying drawings which provide full information about site layout, internal arrangements and all elevations, both existing and proposed, and, where appropriate, a contextual drawing, for example, the street scene?
- Do you drawings accurately show changes in site levels?
- Do your drawings show existing vehicular and pedestrian access points, proposed access points, visibility splays and gradients and details of proposed vehicle and cycle parking and service areas?
- Do your drawings accurately show changes in site levels?
- Do your drawings show trees and shrubs which will be lost or retained and details of new landscaping including trees and shrubs to be planted?
- Do your drawings show all new boundary treatments? Have you indicated clearly what materials are to be used and where?
- Do your drawings indicate refuse storage and collection arrangements?
- Do your drawings show how disabled people will be accommodated? You may also be required to include a statement on disabled access.
- Have you identified any ecological features or wildlife habitats on your site and how your proposals intend to deal with them?
- If relevant, do you identify how the extraction of fumes and vapours is to be handled?
- If relevant, have you enclosed full details of acoustic treatments accompanied by justifications?
- Is there any evidence of ground contamination or landfill gas migration on your site and, if so, have you detailed how this will be dealt with?
- If your proposals involve illumination, have you provided details and shown how any impacts are to be mitigated?
- Are there features of archaeological importance on your site and if so how are these to be tackled or recorded?
If you are proposing a major development, have you checked whether you need to supply?
- a transport assessment
- an environmental statement
- a retail impact study
- information about the economic and /or regeneration impact of the scheme
- a three-dimensional model
