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Information requirements and validation for planning applications
- The ‘national list’ – national mandatory information
- The ‘local list’ – additional information required by local planning authorities necessary to make a decision on the application.
The purpose of the validation arrangements is to:
- provide a guide to the information that may be required at the outset;
- enable the local planning authority to provide applicants with certainty as to the information required;
- enable the local planning authority to have all the necessary information to determine the application and to draft the planning permission and all conditions;
- minimise the need for further submission of additional information in order to allow local planning authorities a reasonable opportunity to determine applications within the target period; and
- ensure consistency in the approach taken by different local planning authorities in registering and validating applications whilst recognising the need for variation appropriate to local circumstances.
Where a submission is required under any of the categories below, the Council will require 4 copies (except when applications are submitted electronically). For complex applications additional copies may be requested to assist in the speed of determining the application.
The ‘National List’
This comprises;
- Information provided on the standard application form (these can be obtained from the Planning Portal using the link below, or can be accessed by clicking on ‘Forms’ to the left of this screen).
- Location plan identifying land on which application relates and any other land owned by the applicant.
- Site plan, also identifying the application site and providing additional information where influenced or affected by the proposed development such as public rights of way crossing the site and position of all trees on the site.
- Ownership certificate.
- Notice to all other owners of application site.
- Agricultural land declaration.
- Correct fee.
- Design and Access Statement where required (for more information click ‘Design and Access Statement’ to left of this screen).
The ‘Local List’
Following consultation at the end of 2010 and early 2011 a comprehensive local list has been adopted.
It is important to note that if an application submitted lacks the necessary information specified on the local list, the Council will be entitled to invalidate the application and so decline to determine it. The Council will still need to take a proportionate approach when validating, however, so that applications are not rendered invalid by the omission of an item of information that would add little to the Council’s understanding of the development proposal. Pre-application discussion is strongly encouraged to enable discussion and hopefully agreement as to what additional information is necessary and proportionate for the particular development proposed.
The local list can be viewed using the link provided in the useful documents box below.
Validation checklists
To assist applicants in submitting a valid application, a series of validation checklists have been prepared. The checklist number corresponds with the number of the correct standard application form although it should be noted that in some cases there may be two validation checklists for certain application types.
For example if you wish to submit an application for full planning permission for residential development you require application form 004 and validation checklist V004(a); or if you wish to submit an application for an extension to a house you require application form 001 and validation checklist V001.
The checklists can be downloaded using the links below;
