Development Control - Application for Planning Permission

Summary

Application for Planning Permission

These forms should be used for applications for Planning Permissions.

This form should not be used for:-

• Householder applications (for household extensions, garages, etc.)
• Advertisements
• Certificates of Lawfulness (Existing or Proposed)
• Listed Building Consent
• Conservation Area Consent
• Works relating to Trees/Hedgerows
• Prior Notifications
• Building Regulations

Please note that there is a simpler form available for householders to apply for planning permission for extensions, garages etc. See the 'Householders Application'.

By completing this application form you are applying solely for Planning Permission. In many cases you will also require Building Regulation Approval.

This is not the same as planning permission, but is the control of actual building works in respect of fire resistance, structural stability, ventilation, thermal insulation and drainage, rather than the siting, design and external appearance of the building.

If you have any doubts please contact Building Control.

Before completing the forms, please read all the notes carefully, including the Planning Application Accompanying Notes as failure to comply will delay the processing of your application.

It is important that all five forms are completed and five copies of all drawings supplied.

• Planning Application Drawings
• Fees
• Completed Applications
• Planning Application Accompanying Notes
• Planning Application Form
• Certificate A & B and Notice 1

Planning Application Drawings

Drawings should include the following:-

• A location plan, preferably at 1:1250 or 1:2500, which identifies the application site (Section 2).
  
• A site plan, usually 1:500 or 1:200 showing the proposals in relation to site boundaries and other buildings within the site. This drawing should show positions of all buildings and highways on land adjoining the application site. It should also show the position and size of all trees within or just outside the site. (Section 10).
  Plans should show the extent and type of any surfacing and walling or fencing where proposed.
  As few sites in the area are flat, the plan should show existing and proposed levels of the site, as well as proposed levels of the development. Where major changes to existing ground levels are proposed cross-sections of the development should be supplied.
  
• Floor Plans, usually 1:100 or 1:50 to explain the proposals in detail.
  
• Elevations, usually 1:100 or 1:50 to show all sides of the proposals. These drawing should indicate as fully as possible the proposed building material, their type, colour and maker, if known. The style, material and finish of windows should be shown, together with details of opening lights. Where a proposed elevation adjoins another or others, in a semi detached or terraced situation, then an adequate part of the adjoining elevation (s) should be shown on the drawing.

Where alterations to a building affect any elevation, the whole of that elevation should be shown. This particularly applies to shop fronts.

• The requirements to include details of the surroundings of a proposal will enable applicants to consider their application in its context and achieve an appropriate design.
• Existing Buildings. Where the application is for conversions, alterations, or extensions, plans and elevations of the building as existing should be submitted together with details (and makers if known), of facing and roofing materials.

The Development Control Team welcomes discussion of Sketch plans before they are submitted as a formal application.

Fees

Notes for the Current Scale of Fees payable are available on this web site. If you have any doubts as to the correct fee please contact the Development Control Team.

Your application cannot be considered until the correct fee has been paid.

Completed Applications

Your completed application may be mailed or hand delivered to the address given below. Please note: Planning & Transportation Reception can only accept payment via cheque, money order or bankers draft, payable to "Barnsley M.B.C.". We have no facilities to handle cash.

Planning Application Accompanying Notes

Section 1 - Name and Address of Applicant and Agent

You, the householder, may complete these forms yourself or you may employ an agent to do them for you. The agent could be the same architect, surveyor or builder who drew the plans for you, or you might have drawn the plans yourself. If the form is completed by an agent, all correspondence from Planning & Transportation will be sent to him/her: please give the name of the partner/ associate/ employee who can be contacted by telephone if necessary.

Section 2 - Address of the Applicant

You must submit a location plan with your application showing the site and adjoining properties and roads, with a red line drawn around the site. The scale must be 1:1250 or 1:2500 and show the direction of north. If the applicant owns or controls any adjoining land, this must be edged with blues lines. Five copies are required of this plan.

Section 3 - Brief Description of the Proposed Development

This should clearly state the proposed use(s), the number of storeys if new buildings are proposed, and the number of dwellings if residential development is proposed. Example: Erection of 12 No. three storey dwelling houses and a block of four storey offices. The site area must be stated, show clearly whether the area is in hectares or acres

Section 4 - Type of Application

• A: New Buildings - Outline Applications
  An outline application may be appropriate if you are proposing to erect building(s) and do not wish to submit all details at present, but please give as much detail as you are able. The Council may require more details before determining the application, especially in conservation areas. It may not be appropriate to reserve certain matters for future consideration, e.g. means of access may be especially important. It is therefore very useful to discuss an outline application with the Development Control Team before submitting it so as to agree on the amount of detail required. (see section 5).
• B: New Buildings - Reserved Matters
  Reserved matters applications are applications submitted following an outline planning permission. The outline permission must still be valid. The reserved matters must be in accordance with the outline plans and the conditions attached to the outline permission. (see Section 6).
• C: Applications for the Modification or Removal of a Condition on an Existing Planning Permission
  You should carefully state your reasons for the application in a covering letter submitted with this application. It is recommended that you discuss this with the Development Control Team before submitting your application. (see Section 7).
• D: Changes of Use
  You should only tick Box 'D' if no building works are involved at present (e.g. a new shop front may be applied later, though note that this may mean greater expenditure on fees). If the proposal involves reconstruction of an existing building, or a new access or landscaping, tick either 'E' or 'A'. The only plan normally required with this type of application is the location plan described under (2) above, though it is necessary to submit floor plans if you are proposing a change of use of part of a building.
• E: Change of Use and/ or Building/ Engineering Works
  Tick Box E if you are submitting all the details of new building works, including materials of construction, landscaping, car parking and access. You must submit appropriate accurate plans to a suitable scale showing site location, layouts, elevations (including notes of materials) and sections. Five copies are required of each plan. The Development Control Team welcomes discussions of sketch plans before an application is submitted.

Section 5 - Outline Applications

Complete only if you are making an outline application and have ticked box 'A' in Section 4.

Section 6 - Reserved Matters Applications

Complete this section only if you are making a reserved matters application, and have ticked 'B' in section 4.

Section 7 - Application for Modification or Removal of a Condition

Complete this section only if you are applying for the modification or removal of a condition on a previous planning consent and you have ticked box 'C' in Section 4.

Section 8 - Highways

Planning permission is required for an access to a 'classified' road. Existing pavement crossovers that are no longer required by your proposal should be reinstated as footways. New crossovers should be kept to the minimum in the interest of pedestrian safety. When you want to construct a pavement crossover for a vehicle, or do any other works to the pavement or roadway, you must contact: The Highways Maintenance Section, Highways and Engineering Services, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Tel: (01226) 773555. Tick the relevant boxes.

Section 9 - Public Rights of Way

Please inform us if there is a public right of way across your site, tick the relevant box and show the detail on your plans. N.B. If a well defined footpath crosses the site, it may be claimed as a public right of way.

Section 10 - Trees

The Council wishes to see existing trees retained wherever possible. You should accurately show the position and spread of any existing trees on your plans and state which, if any, are to be felled.

Section 11 - Existing Uses

Should be completed for all applications, for all parts of the site and on all floors of existing buildings.

Example: 'vacant wholesale warehouse'.

If any of the existing buildings on the site are 'listed' as being of architectural or historic interest and you propose altering them, you will probably need to make a separate application for listed building consent. If the existing buildings are not 'listed', but the site is within a conservation area, you may need to obtain separate consent if you intend to demolish any buildings or structures.

Section 12 - Drainage / Water Supply

A & B Drainage

All new buildings should have separate connections to foul-water sewers and stormwater sewers. If this is not possible in your case please discuss with the Drainage Section, Highways & Engineering Services, Barnsley MBC and state on the application form what the drainage arrangements will be. The position of all underground services should of course be determined before detailed plans of new buildings are prepared. If your building is to be built over or near to a drain or sewer, special arrangements will be necessary, and please discuss your proposal with the Drainage Section, Highways & Engineering Services, Tel (01226) 772116.

Where development is proposed in unsewered areas, washland areas or adjacent to main rivers, it would be advisable to contact the Environment Agency, prior to submitting your application. Notwithstanding any permission which may be granted under Town & Country Planning Acts the detailed arrangements for adoptable sewers should be discussed at the earliest opportunity directly with the Drainage Section, Highways & Engineering Services.

C: Water Supply

The applicant is advised to discuss the provision of water supply with Yorkshire Water Services.

Section 13 - Materials

If building works are proposed please describe all external materials, including roof materials (e.g. brick walls, colour, make and type, and show them on your plans).

Section 14 - Car Parking

Specify the number of existing and proposed car parking spaces and show them on the submitted plans.

Section 15 - Commercial & Industrial Development Only

• A: Tick this box if your proposal does not involve any alterations in existing floor space.
• B: Alterations in floorspace.

This must be completed for all non-residential proposals. (Gross floorspace is whole area enclosed by the building; net floorspace excludes circulation spaces and joint services, eg. Toilets).

In addition, the following kinds of information are helpful to the Development Control Team and should be supplied in a covering letter:-

• If the proposal forms a stage of a larger scheme for which planning permission is not at present sought.
• If the proposal is related to an existing use on or near the site.
• If the proposal is a replacement for existing premises elsewhere in the Borough, now considered to be obsolete or otherwise unsatisfactory; please state your intentions regarding the vacated premises.
• If the applicant is an industrial firm, the process to be carried on and the type of machinery used.
• Provisions for the disposal of refuse, especially in the case of restaurants and similar uses; refuse stores must be shown on the plans.

C: Hazardous Substances

Please tick the box and fill in the details if the proposal involves the manufacture, processing, keeping or use of hazardous substance in such circumstances that there will be at any one time be, or is likely to be a notifiable quantity of such substance in, on, or over or under any land.

All as detailed in the Notification off Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1982.

D: Employees

Please complete showing existing and proposed, full and part-time employee numbers.

Section 16

Five sets of plans as described under (2) and (4) above are required for the consultations that have to be carried out on your application.

SECTION 66 CERTIFICATES

When making a planning application you must also send in a completed Section 66 Certificate, which states the ownership of the application site.

Complete A if the application is the sole owner of all the land to which the application relates and if no parts of the land forms an agricultural holding. (Ownership means a person having a freehold interest or a leasehold interest with at least 7 years unexpired). Both the statements 1 and 2 on this certificate must apply for Certificate A to be used.

If the applicant is not the sole owner, please ignore A and Complete B. Send Notice No. 1 (or copies of it) to each owner.

If the land does form part of an agricultural holding you must complete an Agricultural Holdings Certificate, available from Planning & Transportation Reception. If you do not know the name of all or any of the owners you will need to complete Certificate C or D, obtainable from Planning & Transportation Reception.

Note that there is penalty for knowledge or recklessly completing a false or misleading Section 66 certificate.

Related Links:

• Householders Application for Planning Permission
• Building Control Services
• How much will a Planning Application Cost
• What Happens to my Application
• Development Control Services