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.
Application overview
Permission in principle for one dwelling to the rear
Proposal details
- Reference
- CH/25/0352
- Ward
- Norton Canes
- Parish
- Norton Canes CP
- Agent
- Harry Cooper
- UPRN
- MAN000000000123498
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| Document | Published | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Site Location and Block PlanPLOCPLAN | 11 Dec 2025 | View |
| Planning StatementPSUPPSTA | 11 Dec 2025 | View |
| Application Form - without personal informationPAPPFRM | 11 Dec 2025 | View |
| Env Health commentsPCONSULT | 18 Dec 2025 | View |
| Highways commentsPCONSULT | 6 Jan 2026 | View |
| Objection receivedPNEIGHCO | 12 Jan 2026 | View |
| Objection receivedPNEIGHCO | 12 Jan 2026 | View |
| Ecology Officer commentsPCONSULT | 12 Jan 2026 | View |
| Policy commentsPCONSULT | 12 Jan 2026 | View |
| Objection receivedPNEIGHCO | 12 Jan 2026 | View |
| Objection receivedPNEIGHCO | 12 Jan 2026 | View |
| Officer reportPOFFREP | 16 Jan 2026 | View |
| Decision NoticePDECNOT | 16 Jan 2026 | View |
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Application timeline
Council milestones and published deadlines. A deadline passing does not confirm a decision.
Publicity end date
Past published deadlineA published target or deadline. It does not confirm an outcome.
Council sourceDecision due date
Past published deadlineA published target or deadline. It does not confirm an outcome.
Council sourceExtension date
Past published deadlineA published target or deadline. It does not confirm an outcome.
Council source
Decision & conditions
Decision NoticePlanning conditions
- Cannock Chase District Council hereby gives notice that PERMISSION IN PRINCIPLE HAS BEEN GRANTED for the carrying out of the above development in accordance with the details submitted or as may otherwise be amended following written approval by the Local Planning Authority. You are advised that an application for approval of Technical Details Consent (second stage) must be made not later than the expiration of three years beginning with the date of this permission.
- Biodiversity Net Gain The effect of paragraph 13 of Schedule 7A to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 is that, subject to some exemptions, every grant of planning permission in England is deemed to have been granted subject to the biodiversity gain condition that development may not begin unless: (a) a Biodiversity Gain Plan has been submitted to the planning authority, and (b) the planning authority has approved the plan. This objective is for development to deliver at least a 10% increase in biodiversity value relative to the pre-development biodiversity value of the onsite habitat. This increase can be achieved through onsite biodiversity gains, registered offsite biodiversity gains or statutory biodiversity credits. There are statutory exemptions and transitional arrangements which mean that the biodiversity gain condition does not always apply. These can be found at Biodiversity net gain: exempt developments - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The Permission in Principle process is not exempt from the statutory Biodiversity Net Gain requirements therefore the statutory minimum information with regards to BNG (as detailed in paragraph 011 of PPG Biodiversity Net Gain) will be required for approval PRIOR to any technical details consent being granted, unless the applicant submits information to demonstrate that the development meets a valid exemption. This approach is confirmed by paragraph 003 of Planning Practice Guidance Biodiversity Net Gain which states: ‘The grant of permission in principle is not within the scope of biodiversity net gain (as it is not a grant of planning permission), but the subsequent technical details consent (as a grant of planning permission) would be subject to the biodiversity gain condition.’ The applicant should also note that where activities have been carried out on the site between 30 January 2020 and the date of the application which resulted in loss of onsite biodiversity value, the date used to calculate the site’s baseline biodiversity value should be immediately before these activities were carried out. Paragraph 036 of Planning Practice Guidance Biodiversity Net gain provides more information on this.
- Permission in Principle This decision notice only relates to the grant of planning permission in principle. It does not give any approval or consent which may be needed under any legislation, enactment, byelaws, order or regulation other than the Housing and Planning Act 2016. You may need other approvals, consents or licenses for the development e.g. Technical Details Consent or building regulations approval. Permission in Principle is not a planning permission; it is a precursor to it. A planning permission only exists when the Permission in Principle and Technical Detailed Consent have been granted This Permission in Principle application has been assessed upon the proposal description as submitted. Any technical details application should there be accompanied by a signed legal agreement to ensure that the proposal fulfils this description of development.
