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• Planning Application*
  Use the Planning Application form when you are applying for any type of planning permission. Make sure you read the Notes for Guidance and that you have downloaded all the separate documentation required (Notice to Owners of Application Site or to Tenants of Agricultural Holdings). The Notes for Guidance detail everything you should have.
  
  
• Listed Building/Conservation Area Consent
  Use the Listed Building/Conservation Area Consent form when you are applying for works on a listed building or for demolition of unlisted building within Conservation Areas.  Make sure you read the Notes for Guidance for Listed Building/Conservation Area Consents. There are also three forms for notification to owners of part or all of the application site. Where all the owners are known you should use form LBC 2.1, where some of the owners are not known you should use form LBC 3.1 and where none of the owners are known you should use form LBC 4.1
  
  
• Express Consent to Display Advertisements
  Use the Express Consent to Display Advertisements form when you are applying for permission to display an advertisement.  Make sure you read Notes for Guidance.
  
  
• Certificates of Existing Lawful Use
  Use the Certificate of Lawfulness for Existing Use or Operation or Activity in Breach of a Planning Condition form when you are applying for a formal consent for an existing use or development, or if you want a formal consent rather than a letter from the Council for works that you think might be “Permitted Development” i.e. works, which have been granted planning permission by central government. The Council can help clarify these for you.  Make sure you read the relevant Notes for Guidance.
  
  
• Certificate of Proposed Lawfulness
  Use the Certificate of Lawfulness for a Proposed Use or Development form when you are applying to see whether what you are proposing is lawful i.e. it is in accordance with an existing planning permission or is immune from any enforcement action the Council may wish to pursue.  Make sure you read the relevant Notes for Guidance.

• Proposal of Application Notice
  Use the Proposal of Application Notice form where pre-application consultation is required.  Pre-application consultation is required for all applications for planning permission or for planning permission in principle for national and major developments.  The prospective applicant must provide to the planning authority a Proposal of Application Notice at least 12 weeks prior to the submission of an application for planning permission or for planning permission in principle.  Make sure you read the Notes for Guidance, because they detail everything you need to know.

• Prior Approval - Demolition
  Use the Determination as to Whether Prior Approval is required for Demolition form when you are trying to find out whether prior approval is required, from the Council, for demolition of houses or flats.  Make sure you read the relevant Notes for Guidance.
  
  
• Prior Approval - Not Demolition
  Use the Determination as to Whether Prior Approval is required (Not Demolition) form when you are trying to find out whether prior approval is required, from the Council, for various other specified works including works by a gas or electricity supplier, or the development or alteration of toll road, farm or forestry buildings.  Make sure you read the relevant Notes for Guidance.
  
  
• Hazardous Substances Consent
  Use the Hazardous Substances Consent form when you are making an application under Hazardous Substances Regulations. Schedule 1, showing materials and amounts which are considered to be hazardous, is attached.
  
  
• Notices
  • Initiation of Development Notice
  • Completion of Development Notice
  • Display Notice
• Flood Risk and Drainage Impact Assessment Planning Guidance for Developers. 
  

  This guidance is to assist developers and engineers to produce Flood Risk Assessments (FRAs) and Drainage Impact Assessments (DIA’s).  Planning Officers should advise applicants in the planning process and building warrant process of the requirements to produce FRA’s and DIA’s in line with this guidance and to provide the necessary compliance and independent check certification
  
  

  • Flood Risk Assessment Planning Guidance for Developers May 2011

  Local Review Forms
• • Form
  • Guidance Notes