Full Application with Demolition within a Conservation Area
Please note that the application form cannot
be completed on-screen and must be printed before completion.
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1. Applicant Name and Address
Please enter the Applicant Details, including full name and
title. Please also enter the house/flat number and/or name (if
applicable) and street name in the Street address field. The town,
county, country and full postcode should also be entered.
If the application is being submitted by an agent (i.e. someone
who is acting on the applicant's behalf) all correspondence,
including the decision letter, will be sent to him/her.
2. Agent Name and Address
Please enter the Agent Details, including full name and title.
Please also enter the house/flat number and/or name (if applicable)
and street name in the Street address field. The town, county,
country and full postcode should also be entered.
If the application is being submitted by an agent (i.e. someone
who is acting on the applicant's behalf) all correspondence,
including the decision letter, will be sent to him/her.
3. Description of Proposed Works
Please describe the proposal accurately and concisely, including
the extent and degree of demolition.
Example:
- demolition of existing dwellings and erection of five,
two-storey three bed houses
- demolition of existing warehouse and redevelopment of the site
to provide 25 x two bed flats in two five-storey blocks with
ancillary car parking, open space and new access from London
Road
- demolition of existing retail unit and erection of new hot food
take-away unit
- part demolition of existing boundary wall and conversion of a
semi-detached house to three self-contained flats
- removal of existing shop front and installation of a new shop
front
4. Site Address Details
Please enter the full postal address of the site. Enter the
house/flat number and / or name (if appropriate) and street name in
the Street address field. The town, county, country and full
postcode should also be entered. If the application relates to open
ground describe its location as clearly as possible (e.g. ‘Land to
rear of 12 to 18 High Street’ or provide a grid reference).
When you submit a location plan, it is recommended that this is
at a scale of 1:1250 or 1:2500 (or larger), showing at least two
named roads and surrounding buildings. The properties shown should
be numbered or named to ensure that the exact location of the
application site is clear.
The application site must be edged clearly with a red line on
the location plan. It should include all land necessary to carry
out the proposed development (e.g. land required for access to the
site from a public highway, visibility splays (access around a road
junction or access, which should be free from obstruction),
landscaping, car parking and open areas around buildings).
A blue line must be drawn on the plan around any other land
owned by the applicant, close to or adjoining the application
site.
All plans must be to a metric scale and any figured dimensions
given in metres and a scale bar should be included.
5. Pre-application Advice
The local authority may be able to offer (possibly for a fee)
pre-application discussions before a formal application is
submitted in order to guide applicants through the process. This
can minimise delays later in processing the application.
Pre-application discussions can also help you and the planning
authority identify areas of concern about your proposed development
so that you can give consideration to amending your proposal before
the application is submitted. The advice and guidance given to you
at the pre-application stage is given in good faith. However, it
does not guarantee or supply a definitive undertaking as to whether
your proposal is likely to be acceptable.
If you have received pre-application advice from the planning
service please indicate the reference/date of any correspondence or
discussion and the name of the officer. If you do not know these
details then please state ‘Unknown’. This will assist the Council
in dealing with your application as quickly as possible.
6. Pedestrian and Vehicular Access, Roads and Right of Way
You must indicate on your form whether you propose any new
highway(s) and show the location of these on your plans. Any public
highway or footpath that crosses or adjoins the site or is affected
must be shown clearly on the plans, including any proposals that
may require a closure or diversion.
Legal procedures for diversion or closures must be completed
prior to works commencing on site.
Extinguishment of a footpath or bridleway can only be achieved
where it can be shown that there is no longer a need for the right
of way. In deciding this, an authority must take into account how
much the route is likely to be used by the public before
extinguishment and the effect of the extinguishment on the land
over which the route passes.
If you are proposing to undertake any works that will affect the
pavement or roadway then it is advisable to seek advice from the
local highways authority.
7. Waste Storage and Collection
Please identify what provision has been made for the storage of
waste and recycling as part of the proposal, and demonstrate that
these aid the collection of waste and recycling materials by the
waste collection authority. The location of waste storage and
recycling facilities should be clearly identified on the plans.
8. Council Employee / Member
You must declare whether the applicant or agent is a member of
the council’s staff, an elected member of the Council or related to
a member of staff or elected member of the Council. Serving elected
members or planning officers who submit their own planning
applications should play no part in their determination and such
applications should be determined by the planning committee rather
than by planning officers under delegated powers.
For the purposes of this question, 'related to' means related,
by birth or otherwise, closely enough that a fair-minded and
informed observer, having considered the facts, would conclude that
there was a real possibility of bias on the part of the
decision-maker in the local planning authority.
9. Explanation for Proposed Demolition Work
Please provide a reasoned justification for the proposed works.
In order for the Council to assess an application for demolition
properly, it may be necessary to supply additional information such
as a structural survey or other analysis of the character or
appearance of the area or building. If you need more information
please contact your planning authority. For demolition of heritage
assets and designated heritage assets, including listed buildings,
scheduled monuments, buildings in conservation areas, etc, please
refer to:
Planning Policy Statement 5 (Planning for the Historic
Environment)
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/pps5
and the accompanying practice guide PPS5 Planning for the
Historic Environment: Historic Environment Planning Practice Guide
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/pps-practice-guide/pps5practiceguide.pdf
Please note that in a conservation area you do not need consent
to demolish a building which does not exceed 115 cubic metres or to
take down any wall, gate or fence which is less than 1 metre high
where abutting a highway, or less than 2 metres high elsewhere.
Exemptions from conservation area consent are set out in
paragraph 31 of circular 01/01 [PDF].
10. Materials
Please describe the materials you wish to use for walls, roofs,
etc. including the type, colour and name of all materials to be
used. You should try to use materials to blend with existing
buildings.
Additional information may be provided in a design and access
statement or planning supporting statement or shown on drawings and
plans.
If the current site is vacant or is to be demolished then please
indicate ‘existing’ materials as being not applicable.
11. Vehicle Parking
Please specify the total number of existing parking spaces and
the total number of proposed parking spaces (including spaces
retained) by vehicle type. Please include garage spaces.
If no parking spaces are to be provided you should show on your
plans or describe in a supporting statement where vehicles are to
be parked.
The diagram below shows the minimum size of car parking spaces.
However, further advice and guidance should be sought from your
planning authority.
Minimum size of parking spaces
12. Foul Sewage
All new buildings need separate connections to foul and storm
water sewers. If you propose to connect to the existing drainage
system please show the details of the existing system on the
application drawing(s). Note that in most circumstances surface
water is not permitted to be connected to the public sewers. The
use of soakaways will require satisfactory percolation tests to
have been undertaken.
If the proposed development results in any changes/replacement
to the existing system or the creation of a new system, scale plans
of the new foul drainage arrangements will need to be provided.
This will include a location plan, cross sections/elevations and
specifications. Building Regulations Approval will be required. If
connection to any of the above requires crossing land that is not
in the applicant’s
ownership, other than on a public highway, then notice may need
to be served on the owners of that land.
13. Assessment of Flood Risk
Owners have the primary responsibility for assessing the flood
risk to and from their property. Site-specific Flood Risk
Assessments (FRAs) are generally carried out by prospective
developers for specific development proposals. The responsibilities
of other stakeholders are given in Planning Policy Statement (PPS)
25 Development and Flood Risk paras. 22-32 and in Annex H of
PPS25:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/pps25floodrisk
Establishing the need for a Flood Risk
Assessment
The requirement for a FRA together with the definitions of flood
zones can be found in Table D.1 of PPS25. The Environment Agency
Flood Map which shows the flood zones can be viewed at
www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood/?lang=_e.
Objectives
The objectives of an FRA are to establish:
- whether the proposed development is likely to be affected by
current or future flooding from any source
- whether it will increase flood risk elsewhere
- whether the measures proposed to deal with these effects and
risks are appropriate
- whether the development will be safe
Scope
Once it is established whether an FRA is required the scope of
the FRA should be agreed with the Local Planning Authority (LPA)
and Environment Agency (EA) and any other relevant bodies. The FRA
should always be proportionate to the degree of flood risk and the
scale, nature and location of the proposed development. The scoping
of the FRA should be done as early as possible in developing the
planning application as avoiding or mitigating flood risk may
require important design considerations which are generally easier
and more cost-effective to incorporate when developing the
proposal.
Other sources of information
Where a Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) has been
completed by the LPA and used to formulate policy and allocate
development using the sequential approach in the Local Development
Document (LDD), FRAs should only need to focus on site-specific
issues. The LDD policies should make it clear what issues need to
be covered in the FRA. The Environment Agency also has Standing
Advice which can assist in developing the scope, particularly for
smaller developments, to be included in a FRA. The Standing Advice
is available at:
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/planning
Content
Guidance on the content of a FRA is given in Annex E (Paras
E8-E10) and in the Practice Guide companion to PPS25 which includes
a template to assist in completing a FRA.
14. Biodiversity and Geological
Conservation
Where a development proposal is likely to significantly affect
features of biodiversity or geological conservation interest, it
will be necessary to submit with the application sufficient
information on what those effects are, in order for the local
authority to determine it. The local planning authority may have
produced a list of which features in their area will require such
additional information. In some cases this additional information
may be required based on a survey of affected species, habitats or
geological features and an assessment of impacts. What is required
will depend on the significance of the features and the scale and
significance of the likely impacts, and what information the local
authority already has. It will be advisable to discuss with the
local planning authority what is required, and who may be competent
to carry out any survey and assessment work required, prior to
compiling the information and submitting the application.
It may be possible to obtain some of the necessary information
via a search of ecological or geological data held by a local
environmental records centre. Planning for Biodiversity and
Geological Conservation: A Good Practice Guide (referenced below)
also provides useful information about other possible sources of
biodiversity data and ecological surveys.
It is possible that survey information can be collected only at
certain times of the year and the applicant will need to take this
into account in preparing an application and considering the timing
for the development. Depending on the survey information which the
local planning authority requires, the following factors may need
to be considered:
- the numbers and range of habitats, species of flora and fauna
and/or geological features found on and where appropriate around
the site;
- the potential development impacts likely to harm the
biodiversity or geological conservation features identified by the
survey (both direct and indirect effects both during construction
and afterwards). Including how:
- alternatives designs or locations have been considered
- adverse effects will be avoided wherever possible
- unavoidable impacts will be mitigated or reduced
- impacts that cannot be avoided or mitigated will be
compensated
Further information on the legislative and national planning
policy context for biodiversity and geological conservation can be
found in the following documents:
PPS 9 - Biodiversity & Geological Conservation (2005);
available:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/pps9
ODPM Circular 06/2005 Biodiversity and Geological Conservation –
Statutory Obligations and Their Impact Within The Planning System;
available at:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/circularbiodiversity
Planning for Biodiversity and Geological Conservation: A Good
Practice Guide (2006); available at:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/planningbiodiversity
The Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management have
produced Guidance on Survey Methodology; available at:
http://www.ieem.net/surveyingadvice.asp
This may provide useful information on possible survey
methods.
15. Existing use
When describing the current use of the site please also include
any details of the part(s) of any listed building(s)/structure(s)
being affected.
When answering whether the site is currently vacant, this means
whether the site is currently not in active use.
Contamination
Land affected by contamination covers all cases where the actual
or suspected presence of substances in, on or under the land may
cause risks to people, property, human activities or the
environment. Sensitive uses include housing with gardens, schools,
nurseries or allotments, and consideration should be given to
whether the use could be particularly vulnerable to the presence of
any contamination.
Assessment of contamination of the land
The need to provide an adequate assessment of land contamination
is outlined in Planning Policy Statement 23: Planning and Pollution
Control (PPS23):
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/planningpolicystatement23
Advice for developers on the steps they should take to identify
whether there is a risk of contamination is contained in Annex 2 to
PPS23:
Development on Land Affected by Contamination
:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/pps23annex2
You should also consult your waste planning authority’s website
which should make clear what the statement should contain.
16. Trees and Hedges
Paragraph 4.1.3 of ‘BS 5837: 2005 Trees in relation to
construction - Recommendations’ offers advice on how to identify
trees on adjacent land that could influence the development.
Sections 4 to 7 of BS 5837: 2005 contain detailed guidance on
survey information and plans that should be provided. Using the
methodology set out in the Standard should help to ensure that
development is suitably integrated with trees and that potential
conflicts are avoided.
[PLEASE NOTE this is an application for planning permission. It
is not an application or notification to remove or prune protected
trees (i.e. trees which are included in a tree preservation order
or located in a conservation area).
If you are granted full planning permission, you will not need
to obtain separate consent for tree works which are required to
implement the planning permission. However, works to protected
trees which are not required to implement the planning permission
must be the subject of a separate application or notification using
the tree works form.]
17. Trade Effluent
Please describe the type, quantities and means of disposal of
any trade waste or effluent. If there is to be none please mark as
‘NO’.
18. Residential Units (including Conversion)
Please enter the total number of existing and proposed
dwellings, that exist at present and the number which would exist
after your development, by category and dwelling type.
The categories are classified as:
- Market housing – includes properties for sale where prices are
set in the open market.
- Social rented – includes rented housing owned by local
authorities and registered social landlords for which guideline
target rents are determined through the national rent regime, set
out in the ‘Guide to Social Rent Reforms’ published in March 2001.
Also includes rented housing owned by other persons and provided
under equivalent rental arrangements to the above, as agreed with
the local authority or funded with grant from the Housing
Corporation, as provided for in the Housing Act 2004.
- Intermediate – includes housing at prices or rents above those
of social rent but below market prices or rents. This can include
shared equity products (e.g. HomeBuy) and intermediate rent (i.e.
rents above social-rented level but below market rents).
Intermediate housing differs from low cost market housing (which
Government does not consider to be affordable housing).
- Key worker – includes those groups eligible for the Housing
Corporation funded Key Worker Living programme and others employed
within the public sector (i.e. outside of this programme)
identified by the Regional Housing Board for assistance.
The types of dwellings are classified as:
- Houses - a house is a dwelling that is not a flat and includes
single storey bungalows.
- Flats or maisonettes – includes separate and self-contained
premises constructed or adapted for use for residential purposes
and forming part of a building from some other part of which it is
usually divided horizontally. Maisonettes are flats containing more
than one storey.
- Live-work units - accommodation that is specifically designed
to enable both residential and business use.
- Cluster flats/non-self contained - units with no separate or
self contained living and sleeping accommodation within a larger
building of which it forms a part.
- Sheltered housing - specifically designed housing in a group
with services such as the support of a warden, communal facilities,
alarm systems and laundry services. Also includes grouped housing
schemes without the services of a warden and other communal
facilities.
- Bedsits/studios – refers to a bedroom/living room containing
cooking facilities. In addition, it may also contain washing
facilities or even a shower.
19. Non-Residential Floorspace
Definitions:
Gross internal floorspace is the internal area of the building,
and should include circulation and service space such as lifts and
floorspace devoted to corridors, toilets, storage, etc. It does not
include any area external to the building(s).
Where more than one use class is proposed as part of any
development, floorspace should be specified for each separate
planning unit (by Use Class).
For proposed retail floorspace (Use Class A1) the amount of
tradeable floor area of the total gross internal floorspace should
also be provided. Tradeable floorspace is sales space which
customers have access to (excluding areas such as storage).
For outline applications, please enter the maximum floorspace
for each use for which you are applying.
All floorspace figures should be provided in square metres.
20. Employment
Please give details of the total number of existing people (i.e.
already employed on the site) and any additional staff to be
employed (in both full-time and part-time employment) as a result
of the proposal being implemented, and calculate the total
full-time equivalent posts.
Full-time equivalent numbers can be defined as a statistic
representing the number of full-time employees that could have been
engaged if the reported number of hours worked by part-time
employees had been worked by full-time employees. This is usually
calculated by dividing the ‘part-time hours paid’ by the standard
number of hours for full-time employees and then adding the
resulting quotient to the number of full-time employees.
Proposed employment figures may be particularly relevant when
applying for town centre and retail development. Further
information can be found in Planning Policy Statement 4: Planning
for Sustainable Economic Growth
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/planningpolicystatement4
21. Hours of Opening
Provide details of the proposed hours of opening for each
non-residential use proposed on the site. (In sensitive areas, or
where a use could cause nuisance to neighbours, it is likely that
the Planning Authority would impose a condition restricting the
hours of operation on your proposed development should approval be
given.)
In the event that the hours of operation do not match the hours
of opening please provide this information in a supporting
statement attached to the application.
22. Site Area
The area contained within the boundary of the site to which the
application relates will normally be shown edged in red on the plan
accompanying the application, while other land in the same
ownership but not being developed is normally identified separately
with a blue line. Site area should be provided in hectares.
For some application types the fee is based on the site area, in
which case an accurate answer to this question is particularly
important.
23. Industrial or Commercial Processes and Machinery
- Landfill - in all cases this should include
void space to be created by mineral extraction.
- Energy from waste incineration - where the
incineration of waste will generate electricity, heat or combined
heat and power (CHP); where there will be no energy utilisation
from incineration use ‘Other incineration’ box
- Other incineration - where there will be no
energy utilisation from the incineration of waste
- Transfer stations - where the main activity
will be the bulking up of waste for treatment or disposal
elsewhere; may include some sorting, baling, compaction for
recycling, but where this is the main activity use material
recycling/recovery facilities (MRFs)
- Material recovery / recycling facilities -
where the main activity will be the receipt and sorting of waste
for recycling and recovery; may include centralised MRFs, community
MRFs and as well as small scale recycling bring banks
- Any combined mechanical, biological and/or thermal
treatment (MBT) - where a single application proposes a
mix of technologies to treat a single waste stream on one site;
where a single technology is proposed use the most specific waste
facility type
- Other treatment - where a more specific waste
treatment type does not describe the proposed activity; examples
may include separation technologies, vitrification, autoclaving,
etc.
- Storage of waste - where the proposal is for
medium to long-term storage of waste; where waste will move to
recycling, recovery or disposal in the short-term use Transfer
Stations or MRFs
- Other waste management - including the
recovery of waste to land under an exemption from waste
permitting
- Other developments - to include incidental
development proposals on existing sites such as leachate treatment
plants and weighbridges, where these don’t add waste management
capacity
24. Hazardous Substances
Please give details, including type and quantity of hazardous
materials to be used or stored on site. If your application
involves the use or storage of hazardous materials above a certain
quantity, Hazardous Substances Consent will be required. A list of
these materials and the permitted quantities is set out in the
Planning (Hazardous Substances) Regulations 1992:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1992/Uksi_19920656_en_3.htm
25. Ownership Certificates
An ownership certificate must be completed stating the current
ownership of the land to which the application relates under
Article 12 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management
Procedure) (England) Order 2010 & Regulation 6 of the Planning
(Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Regulations 1990.
It is an offence, knowingly or recklessly, to complete a false
or misleading certificate.
- Certificate A - Sole Ownership
Certificate A should only be completed if the applicant is the
sole owner of the land to which the application relates (i.e. the
applicant is the freeholder and there are no leaseholders with
seven years or more remaining on their leases).
If the application involves a leasehold flat then certificate A
does not apply as the applicant is not the sole owner. Therefore,
in this circumstance, the applicant should complete certificate B,C
or D (see details below).
- Certificate B - Shared Ownership (All other owners
known)
Certificate B should be completed if the applicant is not the
sole owner but knows the names and addresses of all the other
owners (e.g. this certificate will need to be served if the
proposals encroach onto adjoining land).
The Notice to Owners
(Notice 1) must also be completed and sent to all known
owners.
A copy of the notice must also be sent with the application to
the local authority.
- Certificate C - Shared Ownership (Some other
owners known)
Certificate C should be completed if the applicant does not own
all of the land to which the application relates and does not know
the name and address of all of the owners.
The Notice to Owners
(Notice 1) must be completed and sent to all known owners.
Where the owner is unknown the Notice to Unknown Owners
(Notice 2) needs to be published in a local newspaper.
A copy of the notice must also be sent with the application to
the local authority.
- Certificate D - Shared Ownership (All other owners
unknown)
Certificate D should be completed if the applicant does not own
all of the land to which the application relates and does not know
the names and addresses of any of the owners.
The Notice to Unknown Owners
(Notice 2) needs to be published in a local newspaper.
A copy of the notice must also be sent with the application to
the local authority.
26. Agricultural Holdings
All full planning applications must include the appropriate
agricultural holdings certificate to be considered by the local
authority.
It is an offence, knowingly or recklessly, to complete a false
or misleading certificate.
If the land to which the application relates forms an
agricultural holding or part of an agricultural holding as defined
by the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and comprises land subject to
an Agricultural Tenancy all agricultural tenants must be notified
prior to the submission of an application.
You must either
confirm that none of the land to which the application relates
is, or is part of, an agricultural holding, or
give notice to all tenants on the agricultural holding using the
Notice to Agricultural Tenants
(Notice 1). A copy of the notice must also be sent with the
application to the local authority.
If you are the sole tenant of the Agricultural Holding, insert
'sole tenant - not applicable' in the table under option (B).
27. Planning Application Requirements & Local Level
Requirements
There are two levels of requirements, national and local:
- National - Use the checklist to ensure that
the forms have been correctly completed and that all relevant
information is submitted.
- Local - The local planning authority will have
produced a document (usually available from their website) which
details any specific information that is required to accompany the
application in addition to the national requirements.
Failure to complete the form correctly or to supply sufficiently
detailed drawings or other relevant supporting information may
result in your application being returned as invalid.
28. Declaration
Please sign and date your application.
29. Applicant Contact Details
Please provide contact information for the applicant.
30. Agent Contact Details
Please provide contact information for the agent.
31. Site Visit
Access to the site (i.e. where the works are proposed to take
place) may be required by the case officer. Please provide contact
details in the event that an appointment needs to be made. This
will assist the Council in dealing with your application as quickly
as possible.
If you need any further help or guidance please
email the Planning
Enquires team or telephone 01233 330264.
This webpage was updated on
3/23/2012