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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Oxford Castle, New Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire
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Oxford Castle, New Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire
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1. Create border in Common Hawthorne plants (Crategus Monogyna) or similar as a double staggered row 30 to 50 centimetres apart throughout planted by hand, dug to a depth approximately 200 mm deep. This border to run from abutment of the Mound with Macclesfield House around the base of the Mound to its abutment with the former gate access adjacent to access road leading to Oxford Unlocked as shown on drawing. 2. Re - planting of ivy on the lower rear slope facing the Key Learning Centre. Area to be treated prior to planting to kill off unwanted vegetation, treat large suckers with a treatment such as brushwood stump killer first. Ground to be prepared to plant ivy at spacings of 600mm. Builders rubble from Key Learning Centre development, reported to be in the topsoil and would be disturbed, to be reomoved by hand. 3. Remove ivy as described above and refit stones lying at base of wall to corner of retaining wall with existing material on site and imported material to match existing if required. Bedding mortar to be tested by contractor to determine mix to match existing. 4. Install 7No. A4 size signs, 'Keep to the path' in white letters on green backgound, screw fixed to 600 x 75 x 75 mm timber posts driven by hand into the ground approximately 300 mm deep: shown - on drawing in various locations adjacent to path. Height above ground will therefore be approximately 300 mm. All works undertaken using hand tools.
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