Implementing the LPPU and SPDs with old Local List
The Local Plan Partial Update (LPPU) and some Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) have been adopted with effect from January 2023. Unfortunately the Local List of Planning Application Requirements (LLPAR) requires a separate public consultation before it can be changed. Until the LLPAR is updated please see the below list of policies to check what the new recommended validation requirements are, and what you are now advised to submit before your application is registered.
- Biodiversity Net Gain
- Accessibility Standards (policy H7 pages 154-156)
- Planning Obligations
- Viability Assessments
- Transport Assessment
- Travel Plan
- Houses of Multiple Occupation and Composite Plan (policy H2 Pages 142-4)
- Student Accommodation (Policy H2a pages 144-148)
- Sustainable Construction Checklist
For further guidance on submission requirements please email dm@bathnes.gov.uk.
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.
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
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