Planning > Planning applications
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Planning - Amending and extending
03 June 2010
New procedures are in place for facilitating minor changes to plans and extending permission periods, but as always, the devil is in the detail. Alan Gunne-Jones explains. One common...
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Determining permitted development
27 April 2010
Even where a proposal is 'development', it may be one that can be carried out without obtaining express planning permission. The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)...
Summary
This section outlines procedures surrounding the preparation, submission and decision making processes surrounding applications for planning permission and is broadly divided into sections that include proposals, permitted development, restrictions, preparing an application, environmental impact assessments, LPAs' procedural requirements and outcomes of applications.
This section is maintained by Melanie Blanchard of Denton Wilde Sapte.
Resources
- Glossary
- Cases
- Features
- Forms
- Advertisement consent application checklist
- Approval of details reserved by condition application checklist
- Approval of reserved matters application checklist
- Conservation area consent for demolition application checklist
- Hedgerow removal notice application checklist
- Householder planning permission application checklists
- Lawful development for a proposed use application checklist
- Lawful development for an existing use application checklist
- Listed building consent application checklists
- Outline planning permission application checklists
- Planning permission application checklists
- Pre-application due diligence checklist
- Prior notification of permitted development by electronic communications code operators application checklist
- Prior notification of proposed agricultural development application checklists
- Prior notification of proposed demolition application checklist
- Removal or variation of a condition application checklist
- Tree works application checklists
- Legislation
- Local Government Act 2000
- Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
- Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004
- Town and Country Planning (Applications) Regulations 1988
- Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2008
- Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2006
- Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999
- Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) Regulations 1989
- Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications)(Amendment)(England) Regulations 2005
- Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995
- Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (No. 2) (England) Order 2008
- Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995
- Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987
- Town and Country Planning Act 1990
- Town and Country Planning General Regulations 1992
- Urban Development Corporations in England (Area and Constitution) Order 1998
- RICS practice standards
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Worksmart tools
- Contract Administrator
- ProForms
- Survey Writer
- What is the proposal?
- Is the proposal development?
- Operational development
- Material change of use
- Permitted development
- Determining permitted development
- Removal of permitted development rights
- Applying for a Certificate of Lawfulness of a Proposed Use or Development
- Planning restrictions on proposals
- Preparations for a planning application
- Familiarisation with relevant planning policy
- Environmental impact assessment
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General procedures in making the application
- Overview
- Information on the application form
- Full and outline applications
- Reserved matters applications
- Obtaining application forms
- Fees for planning applications
- If the applicant does not own all the site
- If the planning authority owns part of the site
- Deciding to include an environmental impact assessment with the application
- Making more than one application
- Twin tracking
- Retrospective applications
- Applications for variation of conditions
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LPAs' handling of the application procedural requirements
- Acknowledgement of receipt and registration
- Request for further information by the LPA
- Publicity for applications to the LPA
- Copies of applications to be sent to statutory consultees
- Determination of planning applications
- Other policies and guidance
- Direction by the Secretary of State
- Negotiation with the applicant
- Going to committee
- Outcome of application
- Validity of planning conditions
- Planning guidance issued by the Secretary of State
- Planning application legislation
- Planning applications cases
- Guide to securing planning permission in the UK
- Further information on planning applications