Checklist for full planning applications

All application forms and evidence you need to give when applying for full planning permission.

Apply online

This includes, for example, applications for extensions (except for householders in a single dwelling), replacement windows and doors, change of use or conversions, new residential or commercial build.

Please submit your application online, it saves money and paperwork. The website identifies the correct form, fee and supporting information. Pay online, and there is no photocopying. The correct fee will be calculated once the application is submitted to the planning department.

Standards for online submissions (file sizes and formats). We might not be able to register applications that do not meet these standards.

Also an Environmental Impact Assessment is needed for all development that meets the relevant thresholds and criteria set out in the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017. 

What you need to include

Single or 2 storey extension

You'll need to provide:

Replacement  or alterations to windows and doors

You'll need to provide:

Commercial change of use - no alterations

You'll need to provide:

Commercial change of use with alterations

You'll need to provide:

Residential or commercial new build

You'll need to provide:

Shopfronts

You'll need to provide:

Residential conversion

You'll need to provide:

Commercial conversion

You'll need to provide:

General alterations

You'll need to provide:

Why you need to include these documents

Requirement Reason
Application form National requirement
CIL additional information form Local requirement
Site location plan National requirement
Block plan National requirement
All drawings to have paper size and scale bar and block plans to show any proposed extension hatched National planning practice guidance
Existing and proposed floor plans As above
Existing and proposed elevations As above
Adjoining elevations (photographs)

Development Plan QD8, QD10, QD11, QD14, SPD02

Contextual elevations National planning practice guidance
Heritage statement National requirement
Design and access statement National requirement

Affordable housing statement / ProForma or viability assessment

 
Biodiversity checklist Development Plan QD17, QD18, NC1 to NC4 CP10

Sustainability checklist

Development Plan CP8, SPD08
Ventilation or extraction details Development Plan CP18
Technical details  
Product survey sheet  
Tree survey Local Plan QD16
Lighting scheme Development Plan QD25, QD26, QD27
Planning statement In accordance with development plan policies
Transport assessment Development Plan TR1, CP9
Retail assessment Development Plan SR1, SR2, CP4
Noise impact assessment National planning policy guidance
Sunlight daylight assessment Development Plan CP12, SPG17
Tall buildings statement Development Plan CP12, SPG17
Flood risk assessment Development Plan QD26
Land contamination report National planning policy guidance

Sustainable drainage report

National planning policy guidance
Fee National requirement