
Validation Checklist - Major Planning Application
National and local information requirements
This local validation checklist can be used to check the information requirements for "major" planning applications for proposals relating to:
- Provision of 10 or more dwellings or
- Development to be carried out on a site having an area of 0.5 hectares or more where the number of dwellings is not specified
- The provision of a building or buildings where the floor space to be created by the development is 1,000 square metres or more; or
- Development carried out on a site having an area of 1 hectare or more;
- Waste development
- Minerals working
National information requirements
- Standard application form (excluding proposals for minerals working)
- Ownership certificates and agricultural land declaration
- Location plan
- Site plan
- Application fee
- Design and access statement
- Fire statement
- Outline applications
Local information requirements
- Existing and proposed elevations
- Existing and proposed floor plans
- Existing and proposed site sections and finished floor and site levels
- Roof plan
- Parking plan
- Affordable housing statement
- Agricultural statement
- Air quality assessment
- Air quality - exposure assessment
- Bat survey
- Biodiversity/geodiversity survey and report
- Coal mining risk assessment
- Community infrastructure levy - Form 1: CIL additional information
- Crime Impact Statement
- Daylight/sunlight assessment
- Digital infrastructure statement
- Drawing/document register
- Energy statement
- Flood risk assessment
- Flood risk sequential test evidence
- Foul drainage assessment
- Greenbelt assessment
- Habitat regulations assessment and impact on South Pennine Moors
- Heritage statement
- Land contamination assessment - Phase I report
- Land contamination assessment - Phase II report and risk assessment
- Landscape and visual impact assessment
- Landscape sensitivity and capacity assessment
- Landscaping scheme
- Lighting assessment
- Minerals working - additional requirements
- Noise assessment
- Parameter plan
- Planning obligations - Draft heads of terms statement
- Residential space standards assessment
- Statement of community involvement
- Structural survey
- Surface water drainage details
- Town centre use - impact assessment
- Town centre uses - sequential test
- Transport statements and assessments
- Travel plan
- Tree survey
- Ventilation and extraction statement
- Visual representations
- Waste development - additional requirements