Supporting documentation for planning applications
All planning applications must be accompanied with supporting documentation (known as “requirements”).
The information within this section provides details about the different types of supporting documentation that may need to accompany your planning application and outlines what information each type of supporting document should comprise.
National requirements
The following types of supporting documentation (known as “national requirements”) must be supplied with all planning applications:
Local area requirements
The following types of supporting documentation (known as “local area requirements”) may also need to be supplied with your planning application (depending on the type of application that you are submitting and the works that you are intending to complete):
General
- photographs
- planning agreements (Community Infrastructure Levy)
- planning agreements (Section 106 agreements)
- planning statements (and additional supporting information)
- pre-application consultation statements
Conservation area and listed buildings
- archaeological assessments
- heritage statements
- London view management framework assessment
- regeneration statements
Environment
- air quality assessments
- basement developments
- biodiversity surveys and reports
- contaminated land assessments
- daylight and sunlight assessments
- environmental impact assessments
- lighting assessments
- noise, vibration and ventilation assessments
- noise impact and sound insulation assessments
- public open space plans
- sustainability statements – design and construction
- telecommunications statements
- waste storage and collection plans
Social
- affordable housing statements
- crime impact assessments
- lifetime homes and wheelchair housing statements
- student management plan
Transportation
The supporting documentation listed above was approved by the Development Control Committee in February 2008.
- Tree survey/arboricultural statement and landscaping schemes
- Affordable housing statements
- Air quality assessment
- Archaeological assessments
- Biodiversity surveys and reports
- Certificates
- Contaminated land assessments
- Crime impact assessments
- Daylight and sunlight assessment
- Removal or variation of conditions
- Design and access statements
- Prior notification of proposed work to a tree located in a conservation area
- Environmental impact assessments
- Heritage statements
- Lifetime homes and wheelchair housing statements
- Lighting assessments
- London view management framework assessment
- Noise impact and sound insulation assessments
- Noise, vibration and ventilation assessments
- Parking arrangement plans
- Photographs
- Planning agreements (Section 106 agreements)
- Planning statements (and additional supporting information)
- Pre-application consultation statements
- Public open space plans
- Regeneration statements
- Scale drawings and plans
- Scale drawings and plans - by project type
- Scaled drawings and plans - by permission type
- Types of scale drawings and plans