Document type | Is it required for my application? | What information is required? |
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| | site or on adjoining properties, which are within falling distance of the proposed development
• All drawings must include a title, drawing number, confirmation of the scale, and a scale bar. |
| Site Sections, Finished Floor and Site Levels – Existing and Proposed Scale of 1:50 or 1:100 | • Where development is on a steep incline/decline.
• Where any development is proposed below ground level.
• Where site levels are proposed to be altered | • Existing and proposed site levels and finished floor levels, related to a defined datum point.
• All drawings must include a title, drawing number, confirmation of the scale, and a scale bar. |
| Biodiversity Self-Assessment | • All new planning applications (except where a Biodiversity Report is submitted with the application) are required to complete a Biodiversity Self-Assessment form (Full Permission, Outline Permission, Listed Building Consent, Permission in Principle). | • Complete the Biodiversity Self-Assessment Form and submit a copy with your application. Please see our website to download the Biodiversity Self-Assessment form (Full Permission, Outline Permission, Listed Building Consent, Permission in Principle).
• Cotswold District Council
• West Oxfordshire District Council
• Forest of Dean District Council |
| Biodiversity Report | • Where the Biodiversity Self-Assessment Form has indicated that there could be impacts on Biodiversity (Habitats or Species).
• Proposals that could affect any of the following (as identified by completing a copy of the Biodiversity Self-Assessment form):
◦ Wildlife sites;
◦ Habitats;
◦ Other natural features;
◦ Protected species; or
◦ Priority species | • Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA): A PEA alone will only be acceptable where there are no impacts, no further surveys required, or only precautionary measures are recommended.
Where a PEA indicates that further surveys or precautionary measures are required:
• An Ecological Impact Assessment (EclA) will be required that collates results from a Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) and individual habitat and species surveys, as well as recommendations for avoidance, |