Checklist of what's required for successful validation
Consideration of planning applications can be delayed until all
the appropriate information has been received. This section
offerrs guidance on the information the Council needs to receive in
a full planning application.
If the information on the checklist is not included, the Council
will declare the application invalid and will not registar and
process it.
- The completed application form
- The correct fee (where necessary)
The Council cannot
entertain an application for planning permission unless the
relevant certificates concerning ownership of the application site
have been completed. All applications, except for approval of
reserved matters, for the discharge of conditions, for works to
trees covered by tree preservation orders, and for express consent
to display an advertisment, must include the appropriate
certificate of owenership.
Certificates A, B, C
and D are listed. For this pupose an 'owner' is anyone with a
freehold interest, or leasehold interest the unexpired term of
which is not less than 7 years.
- Agricultural Holdings Certificate
This certificate is
required whether or not the site includes an agricultural
holding. All agricultural tenants must be notified prior
to the submission of the application. This certificate is not
required if the applicant is making an application for approval of
reserved matters, for the renewal of a temporary permission, for
the discharge or variation of conditions, for works to trees
covered by a Tree Presrvation Order, or for express consent to
display an advert.
A notice to owners of
the application site must be used if Certificate B has been
completed and may be required if Certificate C has been
completed. A copy should be served on each of the inpiduals
identified in the relevant certificate
All applications must
include four copies of a location plan at a scale of 1:1250
(or 1:2500 in rural areas). Such palns should show at least two
named roads and surrounding buildings. The properties shown
should be numbered to ensure that the exact location of the
application is clear.
Copies of Ordnance
Survey Plans to be used as site location plans may be purchased
from:
Page Plan
Prints Tel/Fax:
01622 756 305
3rd
Floor E-mail:
repro@pageplan.co.uk
Cornwallis
House
http://www.pageplan.co.uk/
Pudding Lane
Maidstone
ME14 1NY
OR
National Map
Centre Tel:
01634 238 238
17 - 25 Station
Road Fax:
01634 238 239
Rainham E-mail:
rainham@mapsnmc.co.uk
Kent
http://www.mapsnmc.co.uk/
ME8 7RS
The application site
must be outlined clearly with a red line,
including all land necessary to carry out the proposed development
- for examle, land required for access to the site from a public
highwaym, visibilty splays, landscaping, car-parking and open areas
around buildings.
A blue
line must be drawn around any other land owned by the applicant,
close to or adjoinig the application site.
It is also helpful if
public rights of way are shown in brown.
Four copies of the
Block Plan should be submitted at a scale of 1:500 or 1:200 and the
following information should be
included:
- The proposed development in relation to the site boundaries and
other existing buildings on the site, with written dimensions
including those to the boundaries. The survey information should
show important landscape features, spot heights and, where
appropriate, contours. Present and proposed levels must be
indicated if significant changes are to be made.
- If any tree within the site, or overhanging from a neighbouring
property, is affected in any way by the proposed development, a
tree survey should be provided showing their species, position and
crown spread.
- Where the proposed development is complex, or likely to affect
an adjoining property, the position of buildings, trees and other
features outside your site, which should also be dimensioned.
- All the buildings, roads and footpaths on land adjoining the
site, and including proposed access arrangements and full
visibility splays (which may also affect adjoining land or
property).
- The extent and type of any hard surfacing proposed.
- Boundary treatments including walls or fencing where these are
proposed. These should be dimensioned and described eg "1800mm
brick wall".
- Four copies of all drawings should be submitted, at a scale of
either 1:100 or 1:50 and should explain the proposal in
detail.
- The drawings should include floor plans of the existing
building as well as the proposed development.
- Each floor plan should establish the layout of any new or
revised areas and show the relevant uses eg bedrooms, living rooms
or lifts. Where existing buildings or walls are to be demolished
these should be clearly shown.
- A floor plan to show revisions to an existing roof or to
illustrate a complex roof will also be required.
- In buildings where the public have access, including shops and
workplaces, facilities for disabled people should be shown and
described on the drawing.
- Four copies of all drawings should be submitted, at a scale of
either 1:100 or 1:50 and should explain the proposal in
detail.
- All sides of the proposal must be shown and these should
indicate the type and colour of the proposed building materials and
the style, materials and finish of windows and doors. Blank
elevations must also be included, if only to show that this is in
fact the case.
- New buildings should also be shown in context with adjacent
buildings and the street scene to show the integration of the
proposed design with its surroundings. This will be particularly
relevant in conservation areas and near listed buildings.
Sections through your
site and adjoining areas with relevant elevations will be necessary
in some circumstances. The drawings may take the form of
contours, spt levels or cross or long sections
Four copies of a
drawing at a scale of 1:50 or 1:100 showing a cross section(s)
through the proposed building should be submitted
- In all cases where a proposal involves a change in ground
levels, particularly close to the boundaries of the site. These
should show both existing and finished levels.
- On significantly sloping sites, where full information is
required concerning alterations to levels, the way in which a
proposal sits within the site, and in particular the relative
levels between existing and proposed buildings.
Other points to
help ensure a valid application
- Applications should include four
copies of the application form and four copies of all other
relevant documents.
- All drawings accompanying the application must be dated and
numbered and these numbers must be indicated on the application
form.
- All revised drawings must indicate the full extent of the
changes proposed and show a revision number/letter and the date of
that revision.
- The scale(s) of the drawings must be shown. All drawings must
be to a suitable metric scale and plans that are marked
"do not scale" or with similar disclaimers will not be accepted.
These will result in the application being declared invalid.
- Plans and elevations will be checked for consistency. Any
significant discrepancies between the two will result in the
application being declared invalid.
- Drawings for "illustrative purposes" in outline applications
should be indicated accordingly.
- Where existing buildings are to be altered or extended, the new
work must be clearly shown and the demolition indicated. New work
should be distinguished from existing, eg by the use of colour or
by using different plans.