The Town & Country Planning Act requires planning applications to include:Ī plan which identifies the land to which the application relates.Īny other plans, drawings and information necessary to describe the development which is the subject of the application. ![]() They can be found partly at national level, through the Town & Country Planning Act and partly at local level, through a ‘Local List’ of requirements set by the LPA. The answers are not as clear cut as you might think they ought to be. Obviously, with hindsight, I should have known that.īut the question remains, how do you know what needs to be submitted and in what circumstances? It turned out that I hadn’t submitted a roof plan and, unlike other LPA’s, this one had a specific requirement that all applications should include a roof plan. So what was the problem in this instance and what should I have done to avoid it? Not surprisingly, the clients were frustrated by this, and naturally expected their architect to know what needed to be submitted in the first place. By the time matters had been notified, corrected and resubmitted, the whole application process had been delayed by a couple of weeks. ![]() ![]() This was really annoying as I’d worked hard to make the submission, only to find some time later that there was a problem. I recently submitted a planning application but the Local Planning Authority (LPA) wouldn’t accept it because the drawings were ‘incomplete’.
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