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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Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre Hempstead Valley Drive Hempstead Gillingham
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Council sourceT3 - Silver Birch - Fell is heavily leaning, touches railing causing dysfunctional growth.G1 - Mixed - Deadwood over pedestrian pathway. Raise crown over car parking spaceto 3m.T4 - Norway Maple - Deadwood/remove epicormic growth. T6 - Sweet Chestnut - Remove deadwood/epicormic growth/Crown Lift over carpark to 5m.T8 - Common Lime - Crown Lift over carpark to 3m.T9 - Sweet Chestnut - Deadwoodremove epicormic - examine upper crown as to strength of scaffolds.T10 - English Oak - reduce extended laterals (reaction growth), remove epicormic growth.T13 - Whitebeam - Remove epicormic. Crown Lift to 3m.T12 - Sweet Chestnut - Deadwood, remove epicormic, remove ivy, crown lift lower laterals.G2 - Mixed - Deadwood any other trees not indivdually numbered Crown Lift to 3m, also remove ivy.G3 - Mixed - Crown Lift over car park to 4m - deadwood over the car park only - remove the ivy from Sweet Chestnut.G4 - 4 Whitebeam - Juvenile - Crown Lift to 3m, remove deadwood over car park & foot path, remove Ivy.T15 - Norway Maple - Reduce by up to 2m to stimulate re-growth, deadwood.G5 - 7 Hornbeam - Crown Lift to 3m over footpath & to give 1m clearance above hedge.T16 - Silver Birch - Crown Lift to 2m, remove ivy.T17 - Silver Birch - Clear Streetlight.T18 Cherry - Remove 2 laterals over road. Deadwood over road.T19 - Silver Birch (2stems) - Fell - Grind Stump - Trip Hazard.G6 - Mixed - Crown Lift to 4m over the roadway & footpath 1 street furniture.G7 - Mixed - Crown Lift over paved footway to 4m, clearance to streetlight - building 2m.T21 - Hawthorn Fell - Dying/Dead.T22 - Copper Beech - Cut back from sign/light (also adjacent limetree).T23 - Unknown Beech - Fell - DeadT24 - Horse Chestnut - Crown Lift to 4m over footpath.G8 - Mixed - Crown Lift over carpark to 3m, deadwood over car park/Footpath.T26 - English Oak - Remove deadwood (major) from lower crown, Crown Lift over path 3m.T27 - English Oak - Remove Deadwood (major) from lower crown, Crown Lift over p
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Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand pending consideration, approved, refused and withdrawn planning applications. Compare status labels and find the documents explaining each outcome.
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.