Strategic development advice
Your work will be a strategic development if it’s for:
- 50 or more residential units
- 5,000 plus square metres floor space
- a development on a site of 2 or more hectares (including any change of use of land or buildings)
- a proposal for a development requiring Environmental Assessment (EA)
Pre-application advice for strategic developments
The advice will include both preliminary and full advice.
Preliminary advice will include:
- whether the principle of the proposal is acceptable
- limited internal consultation
- a planning history search
For preliminary advice, you can expect a response within 30 working days by phone or face to face.
Full advice will include:
- details of any legal designations and limitations that affect the site
- key planning policy context and assessment of the scheme against planning policy
- identification of any other material considerations
- potential development contributions
- a summary of possible changes that may be needed to improve the scheme and, if possible, overcome objections
- identification of areas within the pre-application scheme that may need addressing or amending
- conclusion as to the likelihood of the scheme being accepted
Expectations for full pre-application advice
For full advice, you can expect a meeting in office or on site in which:
- your enquiry will be registered, and within 5 working days you will be contacted; either more information will be needed or the enquiry will have been registered, along with the details of the case.
- a meeting with officers will be offered within 10 working days
- a meeting will take place within 20 working days of registration or within an agreed timescale
- we will provide the notes from the meeting within 20 days