Development Checklist No 4 - Planning - Needed or Not...? (Update 1 - 12 October 2011)

Checklist No 3 has pinpointed such matters as designated areas and affected buildings. This checklist reviews the mandatory aspects of getting planning permission for development, ie after such as matters which do not require planning permission have been dealt with, ie covering the likes of:

Checklist 4A - Planning Permission not Needed

This section is a check to ensure that planning permission is not needed for a particular operation, building works or change of use. A check is needed to consider whether the "project" is one of the following:

• works etc which are not development within the definition of development;
• permitted development within the General Development Order;
• change of use within a class of the Use Classes Order.

Normally they will not require an application but there are exceptions.

Checlist 4B - Planning Permission
Having established that a proposal will most likely need planning permission, certain practice and statutory requirements may need to be fulfilled, including:

Planning History

Planning Application

Certificates of Land Ownership

Demolition:  Depending upon the circumstances demolition of the whole or part of a building or structure may require:

• planning permission;
• listed building consent: or
• conservation order consent..

Environmental Impact Assessment and Statement
Projects are categorised as being Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 (see SI XXXXXXX). If they have a significant impact on the environment a planning application must be accompanied with an environmental statement. 

Energy

Sustainability

Transport