Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
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Jessops , 6 Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AQ
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Discharge of condition 5 of application 97/01019/FUL (Demolition of existing buildings and structures, and redevelopment of the Southgate area for residential (Class C3); retailing (Class A1, A2 and A3); indoor leisure (Class D2(excluding cinema)); offices(Class B1); bus station/public transport interchange and related facilities; public conveniences; car parking; servicing; works to Dorchester Street and Manvers Street and related access and highway works; streets and public spaces and landscaping; works to Bath Spa Railway Station and forecourts to north and south, including the installation of lifts and alterations to the station vaults; works to the electricity transformer; works to the Argyll Hotel building, relocation of listed telephone boxes; and related engineering and landscape works)
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