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
Erection of dwelling (access considered)
Proposal details
- Reference
- 25/1097/PA
- Alternative references
- PP-14389660
- Ward
- Haverfordwest Portfield
- Parish
- HT_Haverfordwest
- Agent
- Mr Andrew Vaughan-Harries
- UPRN
- MAN000000000610558
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Application timeline
Council milestones and published deadlines. A deadline passing does not confirm a decision.
Consultation expiry date
Past published deadlineA published target or deadline. It does not confirm an outcome.
Council sourceStatutory expiry date
Past published deadlineA published target or deadline. It does not confirm an outcome.
Council sourceSite notice 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 source
Decision & conditions
Planning conditions
- Policy GN.28 (Local Needs Affordable Housing) and adopted Supplementary Planning Guidance (Affordable Housing) require affordable housing provision on all new housing developments. In this case, a commuted sum is required and no original signed Unilateral Undertaking and Certificate of Title has been provided to secure this payment. As such, the proposal is contrary to Policy GN.28 of the Local Development Plan for Pembrokeshire (adopted 28th February 2013), Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Guidance and Future Wales, The National Plan 2040, February 2021.
- The application fails to adequatly demonstrate a stepwise approach to inform any loss green infrastructure and biodiversity such a key features including the loss of an extensive mature hedgeline along the northern boudary, with a masonary wall. As such the proposal fails to comply with policies SP 1 (Sustainable Development), GN.37 (Protection and Enhancement of Biodiversity), Planning Policy Wales Edition 12, 2024 and the Environment (Wales) Act 2016.
- The proposed development does not include several critical details wihtin the NNAMS report. These include the precise location and site plans for the mitigation land, Land Registry title(s) confirming ownership or control, evidence of the current agricultural use and management of the land, and comprehensive details of woodland creation, including long-term management and monitoring (80–125 years). In the absence of this information, nutrient neutrality has not been demonstrated, and the proposal therefore fails to comply with criterion 8 of Policy GN.1 of the Local Development Plan.
