I'm applying for planning permission for an extension, but am getting confused with the Site and Location plans required, via the Planning Portal.
Am I right in thinking that the Location Plan covers a larger area, with just the house and garden I own (where the extension will be) highlighted in red, and any other land I own in the area (none, as it happens) in blue, without a visual representation of the extension presented...
And the Site Plan is a closer in view with the house and garden I own highlighted in blue, with a line drawing of the outline of the extension in red?
Do I also have to mark the dimensions of the extension on this drawing?
Unfortunately the info I can find online is as clear as mud, and they don't teach you this stuff at school! The site I'm planning on using (requestaplan) doesn't seem to give super detailed advice (nor do any of the other sites that offer this service), other than saying that getting the Site and Location Plans wrong is one of the biggest causes of PP not being granted...
I do have architect drawings of the extension already.
I do have architect drawings of the extension already.
And your architect didn't produce site and location plans?
What PP said!!
Plus:
https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200232/planning_applications/59/how_to_apply/6
(ps - really an Architect? i.e. registered with the ARB? Just askin)
You're pretty much correct in what you say.
Location plan - usually 1:1250 scale
Block Plan (Site Plan) - usually 1:500 or 1:200 scale
If you are not going to use an architect, then you need to get everything correct as per your local authority's planning validation requirements. There is usually a downloadable checklist with the national and local requirements on your council's website. If you get this wrong, your scheme will not be validated and the planning period will not start.
Pay attention to the details - eg OS license numbers, CIL forms etc as getting this wrong will only cause you delay.
TBH the easiest way will be for you to pay for the architect to produce a full planning pack and undertake the submission for you.
If you go onto the council website you can look at others people's plans. Limit yourself to approved plans and look at a few. You'll get the idea pretty quickly. There's nothing too tricky about it. Yaks advice about the checklist is spot on. Get a copy of it and tick every box
i'm clearly new to this..! I have full drawings (?!) for the extension, but as I've not yet had the mortgage extended to pay for the work, I'm trying to keep costs low at this point.
The guy who did my drawings could do the plans for an additional cost, but the process of actually getting the Site and Location plans is very easy, and cheap - less than £30 all in to do myself - i just wanted this detail clarifying!
All I really want to know is whether the Location plan needs the proposed extension marked on it, and the Site Plan a) needs it marked on and b) needs the dimensions.
The websites are recommended by the Planning Portal, and they generate the plans correctly with the right scales, North marked on etc, but they aren't super clear of exactly what is required.
As I said, nobody actually tells you how to do any of this, I'm going in totally blind - I don't know anyone who's had to apply for planning before.
thanks nickjb - that's not a bad shout. The planning portal is pretty comprehensive, the whole application goes through that as far as I can tell, and it won't let you submit without everything being completed.
The planning portal will only pass on to your local authority what you have submitted including the mandatory items. The planning portal doesn't check the content of anything. The local authority's validation team will do this and let you know if you have missed anything. The planning portal only really replaces the process of printing 6 of everything and dropping it off at the council offices.
All I really want to know is whether the Location plan needs the proposed extension marked on it, and the Site Plan a) needs it marked on and b) needs the dimensions.
Just had a quick look at my extension application. Location plan didn't have the extension. Just my house marked, surrounded by about 40 others at 1:1250. I did 2 site plans at 1:200; one proposed, one existing. Only a couple of dims showing the location of trees (which was requested on the application form) but it was to scale with a scale bar
thanks nickjb, appreciated 🙂
ah - the impression I got was that the Planning Portal did it all yak! will wade through it all again!
The location plan (usually an OS extract) should have a red line around the boundary of your site and a blue line around any other nearby land that you may own thats not involved in the current application.
The portal tailors the required documents list to the requirements of the authority its being submitted to. They sometimes demand extra drawings that are not appropriate to your application, such as a block plan - I usually just submit the site plan twice to make the system accept it so you can then click submit.
Authorities these days look for the slightest reason to reject application as they are so snowed under with work.