Local requirements for planning applications

There is a huge range of different sorts of planning application, depending on the current use and status of the site, and the development you're proposing. To find out which application type you need, go to the Planning Portal. Once you know your type of application, you can view the local checklist for documents you'll need to supply below.

For all types of application, please ensure that the documents and plans you supply are in line with our best practice guidance.

Householder

• Householder application
• Householder application with listed building consent
• Householder application and demolition in a conservation area

 

Full

• Full planning application
• Full planning application with listed building consent   
• Full planning and demolition in a conservation area
• Full planning with advertisement consent

 

Listed buildings and conservation

• Listed building consent application
• Demolition in a conservation area

Trees and hedges

• Works to trees notification
• Hedgerow removal notification

 

Outlines and Reserved Matters

• Outline application with some matters reserved
• Outline application with all matters reserved
• Approval of reserved matters application

 

Conditions and obligations

• Approval of details reserved by condition
• Modification or discharge of a Section 106 planning obligation

 

Alterations to an application

• Removal or variation of a condition
• Non-material amendment to a planning permission

Lawful Uses

• Certificate of Lawful Use – existing
• Certificate of Lawful Use – proposed
• Application for a Certificate of Lawfulness of proposed works to a listed building

Permission in principle

• Application for permission in principle

Prior approvals and notifications (including agricultural and changes of use)

Prior approval - new agricultural development

• Building for agricultural/forestry use
• Private road for agricultural/forestry use
• Excavation/Deposit waste for agriculture
• Tank/Cage/Structure for use in fish farming

Prior approval - change of use

• Retail to restaurant/café
• Retail/takeaway to dwellinghouses*
• Retail to assembly/leisure
• Agriculture to dwellinghouses*
• Agriculture to flexible commercial use 
• Agriculture to school/nursery 
• Business/hotels/etc to school/nursery
• Offices to dwellinghouses^†
• Light industrial to dwellinghouses^‡
• Amusements/casinos to dwellinghouses^‡
• Retail/takeaway to offices^§
• Commercial/business/service to dwelling house
• Commercial/business/service to mixed use, including up to two flats

* = Covers Associated Operational Development
† = Only applicable for sites outside of the Central Bath area
‡ = Covers any land within original curtilage 
§ = Application to determine if prior approval is required

Prior notification

• Flexible change of use

Prior approval - new development

• Development for electronic communications network
• Larger home extension
• Collection facility for a shop
• Roof mounted solar PV on non-domestic building
• Enlargement of a dwellinghouse by construction of additional storeys
• New dwellinghouses on detached blocks of flats
• New dwellinghouses on detached buildings in commercial or mixed use
• New dwellinghouses on terrace buildings in commercial or mixed use
• New dwellinghouses on terrace buildings in use as dwellinghouses
• New dwellinghouses on detached buildings in use as dwellinghouses
• Demolition of buildings and construction of new dwellinghouses in their place
• Erection, extension, or alteration of a university building

Prior approval -  temporary use

• Temporary school on previously vacant commercial land
• Temporary use for commercial film-making

Prior approval - demolition

• Demolition of a building

Oil, gas, minerals and waste

• Planning application for development relating to the onshore extraction of oil and gas
• Planning permission for mineral extraction or associated development

Adverts

• Advertisement consent application

Appropriate Alternative Development (in the case of a Compulsory Purchase Order)

• Certificate of Appropriate Alternative Development