ABSTRACT

Advice is also given on a fourth matter: opposing the development proposals of another party. Even before a client with a ‘planning problem’ enters your office, you need to be prepared for coping with planning matters, not merely by having the appropriate library of commercial publications (see Chapter 10, ‘Further Reading’) but by gathering together useful documentation which has been issued by the local planning authority (LPA), or by the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions. You should therefore have office copies of the following documents: (a) the structure plan; (b) any local plans, whether comprising a district plan, subject plan, or

action area plan; (c) the unitary development plan if your practice is in a London

borough, a metropolitan district, within a unitary authority area or in Wales. If the development plan is in the process of being revised, obtain copies of the current draft documents relating to the proposed plan if it has not yet been adopted by the LPA. You should also obtain any supplementary planning guidance issued by the LPA, for example, (1) in respect of design standards in respect

of house extensions, new housing development, conversion to flats and (2) car parking standards;

(d) a supply of forms of application for planning permission; (e) a supply of forms of application for listed building consent or

conservation area consent.