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
Variation of condition 3 (site occupiers) and condition 7 (site development and compensation scheme) of R21/1234 (APP/E3715/W/24/3344241) (change of use of land to a private gypsy and traveller caravan site).
Proposal details
- Reference
- R26/0060
- Alternative references
- PP-14631662
- Agent
- Angus Murdoch
- UPRN
- 10094756101
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| Document | Published | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Habitat management and monitoring plan R'cd 19.01.2026Supporting Information | Not published | View |
| Application Form - Without Personal Data R'cd 19.01.2026Application Form | Not published | View |
| Redacted Cover Letter R'cd 19.01.2026Supporting Information | 20 Jan 2026 | View |
| ApasTemplate_8526.pdfOfficer Report | 14 May 2026 | View |
| 753436Decision_Approval_Planning_Permission_8191.pdfDecision Notice | 14 May 2026 | View |
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Decision & conditions
753436Decision_Approval_Planning_Permission_8191.pdfPlanning conditions
- CONDITION 1: The development hereby permitted shall only be occupied by those meeting the definition of a Gypsy and Traveller as defined in Annex 1 of Planning Policy for Traveller Sites (2024).
- CONDITION 2: No commercial activities shall take place on the land, including the storage of plant, machinery and materials and the transfer or burning of materials.
- CONDITION 3: The two pitches hereby permitted shall not be occupied other than by the following: • Mr Andrew Forrest, Mrs Emily Forrest, Mr Jack Forrest, Ms Sinead Forrest, Mr Joseph Fellowes, Mrs Vinenna Lee (nee Forrest) and Mr Charlie Lee and their resident dependents. When the land ceases to be occupied by those named above the use hereby permitted shall cease and all caravans, structures, materials and equipment brought on to or erected on the land, or works undertaken to it in connection with the use, shall be removed and the land shall be restored to its condition before the development took place.
- CONDITION 5: No more than 4 caravans, as defined in the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 and the Caravan Sites Act 1968, shall be stationed or kept on the site at any time, of which no more than two shall be static caravans.
- CONDITION 6: No external lighting shall be installed within the site unless and until full details of the type, design and location have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. Any external lighting shall only be erected in accordance with the approved details.
- CONDITION 7: The use hereby permitted shall cease and all caravans, structures, equipment, hardstanding and materials brought onto the land for the purposes of such use shall be removed and the land restored, in accordance with a scheme approved by the Council, within 28 days of the date of failure to meet any one of the requirements set out in (i) to (iv) below: i) Within 3 months of the date of this Decision, and notwithstanding the submitted details, a Site Development and Compensation Scheme, hereafter referred to as the ‘Scheme’, for: (a) the internal layout of the site including the location (and orientation) of caravans, amenity blocks, parking, amenity areas and facilities for the storage, collection and presentation of refuse and waste; (b) all boundary treatments and all other means of enclosure (including internal sub-division); (c) hard and soft landscaping for the entire red line site area, including details of how existing trees and hedges will be protected and details of proposed planting (species, plant sizes and numbers and planting densities); (d) biodiversity enhancement measures to provide a net gain to biodiversity relative to the site’s condition prior to development taking place. The extent of the enhancement measures shall be informed by an assessment that has established the likely biodiversity baseline prior to the commencement of development. (e) full on and/or off-site compensation measures for the loss of the 0.2 hectares of suitable terrestrial Great Crested Newt habitat that was in place prior to development commencing. (f) details of the means of foul and surface water drainage of the site; shall have been submitted for the written approval of the Local Planning Authority and the said Scheme shall include a timetable for its implementation. ii) If within 18 months from the 21/02/2025, the Local Planning Authority refuse to approve the Scheme, or fail to give a decision within the prescribed period, an appeal shall have been made to, and accepted as validly made by, the Secretary of State. iii) if an appeal is made in pursuance of ii) above, that appeal shall have been finally determined and the submitted Scheme shall have been approved by the Secretary of State. iv) the approved Scheme shall have been carried out and completed in accordance with the approved timetable. Upon implementation of the approved scheme specified in this condition, that scheme shall thereafter be retained.
- CONDITION 8: The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with approved Land Contamination Assessment as detailed below; • The Arbtech Preliminary Risk Assessment: Desk Study report Mr. Andrew Forest- Land adjacent to Treetops, Shilton Lane, Shilton, Coventry, CV7 9LH (dated 15th May 2025) (received by the Local authority 20th May 2025). The approved Scheme shall be carried out and completed in accordance with the approved timetable and mitigation measures during the lifetime of the development on the site.
- CONDITION 4: The development shall be undertaken in accordance with the following approved plans: Site Location Plan Dated 04.11.21 Drawing No SD0163/10 Rev 1 and Amenity Block Dated 11.11.21 Drawing No SD0163/4 Rev 1
