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Planning Permission Applications

A planning application run like a project: the site's history and policy checked, pre-application advice taken, a complete submission, consultees and neighbours managed, committee prepared for, conditions discharged and appeals handled.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Planning Permission Applications, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information to help you organise your own affairs. It is not legal advice. Rules differ between countries and change often, so check decisions that matter with a qualified lawyer or the official authority in the country concerned.

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🏢 Real Estate Investing & Development

Planning Permission Applications

Getting planning permission for a scheme: pre-application advice, consultants, drawings and reports, community consultation, conditions and appeals.

  1. Planning history and constraints search for the site
  2. Policy map for the scheme from the local plan
  3. Choosing the right application type
  4. Planning budget covering fees, reports and contingency
  5. Planning programme from pre-application to decision
  6. Local validation checklist for the application
  7. Brief and appointment for a planning consultant
  8. Planning risk register for the scheme
  9. Single planning file with version control
  10. Weekly planning tracker and team call
  11. Consultee response log during determination
  12. Case officer contact log and monthly check-in
  13. Monthly watch on local planning decisions
  14. Planning conditions discharge tracker
  15. Permission expiry and commencement register
  16. Planning obligations compliance calendar
  17. Stakeholder and neighbour engagement register
  18. Quarterly planning pipeline review
  19. How your planning system decides applications
  20. Reading officer reports and committee minutes
  21. Material considerations and the planning balance
  22. Writing a clear planning statement
  23. Design and access statement that tells the story
  24. Learning from appeal decisions on similar schemes
  25. Practising the committee speech
  26. Understanding viability evidence in planning
  27. Survey and report scoping with seasonal windows
  28. Design changes after pre-application feedback
  29. Handling requested amendments during determination
  30. Withdraw or proceed decision when refusal looms
  31. Post-consent amendments to a permission
  32. Negotiating heads of terms for the planning agreement
  33. Planning performance agreement for a larger scheme
  34. Pre-application meeting with the planning authority
  35. Public consultation event for the scheme
  36. Submission and validation of the application
  37. Planning committee meeting preparation
  38. Design review panel presentation
  39. Decision notice review within a week of issue
  40. First application for a small infill site
  41. Change of use application for an existing building
  42. Applying on land you do not yet own
  43. Scheme in a conservation area or near a listed building
  44. Extending your own business premises
  45. Planning appeal against a refusal
  46. Hearing or inquiry appeal with expert witnesses
  47. Protecting a permission through the challenge period
  48. Environmental impact assessment screening and scoping
  49. Twin-tracking a revised application and an appeal
  50. Lawful development certificate for an existing use

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Planning history and constraints search for the site

Before anyone draws a line, you need to know what has already been applied for on the site, what was refused and why, and which designations sit over it: flood zones, conservation areas, listed buildings nearby, tree protection, rights of way. A two-hour search of the planning authority's online register and constraint maps often changes the scheme, the price you offer or whether you proceed at all.

First tasks

  • Search the planning authority's online register for the site address and its neighbours
  • Download the decision notices and officer reports for any refused applications
  • Check the constraint maps for flood zones, heritage designations and protected trees
  • Write a one-page note on what the history means for your scheme

Policy map for the scheme from the local plan

Officers decide applications against the adopted development plan unless other considerations outweigh it, so the policies that apply to your site are the test your scheme will be marked against. Listing them, with the exact wording on density, height, parking, affordable housing, design and amenity, lets the design team design to the test instead of guessing at it.

First tasks

  • Download the adopted local plan and the policies map for the site
  • Check whether a neighbourhood plan covers the site
  • List each applicable policy with its requirement in one line
  • Mark the policies the scheme may struggle to meet
  • Check the local plan review timetable for policies that may change @recurring(quarterly)

Choosing the right application type

Full, outline, hybrid, reserved matters, prior approval under permitted development, or a lawful development certificate: each carries different costs, information needs and risk. Picking the wrong route can cost months, while the right one can secure value early, for example an outline consent before selling the land, or a prior approval that avoids a full policy test.

First tasks

  • List the application types that could deliver the scheme
  • Compare fees and information requirements for the two likeliest routes
  • Ask your planning consultant which route the authority usually prefers
  • Record the chosen route and the follow-on applications it will need

Make it yours.

Install Planning Permission Applications, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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