10 Types of Application and Unauthorised Procedures Flashcards
What are the 3 types of application?
- Full
- Outline
- Reserved Matters
What is a full planning application?
- Plans, sections, elevations and supporting documennts
When is a planning application required? (4)
- Any new development work not covered by permitted development
- Change of use
- Renewal of temporary permissions
- Removal or change of conditions
What is an outline application? (3)
- Seeks to establish an agreement ‘in principle’
- A way of testing LPA position on a development
- Not usually submitted for change of use, in conservation areas or listed buildings
What is a reserved matters application? (3)
- Sets out the outstanding details following the approval of an outline planning application
- Article 21 of Town and Country Planning (General Developments Procedures) Order 1995
- Must be submitted within a timeframe set out in outline planning permission approval
What should a reserved matters application contain? (5)
Additional information on :
- Scale
- Layout
- External appearances
- Means of access
- Landscaping
What is an application to vary conditions? (2)
- Used to discharge or modify conditions
- Not used on applications that were granted permission subject to conditions on the project if the project has not commenced within its time limit.
What is a retrospective planning application?
- Planning permission applied for after the development / alteration has occured
What is an enforcement action? (2)
- LPA power to take enforcement actions if development wasn’t granted permission
- Failure to comply is a criminal offence
What is a planning contravention notice? (6)
- Development that contravenes planning and is considered unlawful
- Warning to stop building
- Often comes with an invitation to make retrospective application
- Must comply within 21 days
- £1,000 fine for ignorance
- £5,000 fine for false or misleading statements
What is an enforcement notice? (3)
- Notice from LPA
- Carries a fine of up to £20,000
- Section 174 TCPA - right to appeal on grounds that planning permission is not needed
What is a stop notice? (2)
- Notice / injunction to stop building
2. Contravention of notice = £20,000 fine
What is a temporary stop notice? (4)
- LPA power to take early action
- Must stop within 3 days
- Expires after 28 days
- Do not have to wait until enforcement notice is issued
What is a breach of condition notice? (5)
- Detrimental to local amenity
- Detrimental to public safety
- Likely to cause serious environmental harm
- 28 days to comply with condition notice
- £1,000 fine if don’t comply
What is immunity from planning enforcement?
Designated time required when LPAs cannot enforce planning obligations