Planning Notices

whitts

Hi

Does anyone know the rules for a local council to display planning notices, what I want to know is 1 notice on a telegraph pole ( by the house in question) is this ok. All other application are displayed around the village i live in and also on the notice display outside the sub post office.

Any help would be great
thank you

seven-day-weekend

As long as the notice is displayed prominently near the application site for a minimum time (I think it is three weeks)that is all that is required, although for large developments there may be more, but it is not legally necessary.

leveller2911

In my area thats normal, usually posted by the house and on the parish council notice board too, as they tend to give their opinion to the district council as to whether they are for or against the application.On listed properties the council write to all of the neighbours to see if they object and have 30 days to reply, but thats on listed properties..

whitts

thanks for the quick reply, I feel it should be displayed in the parish notice board as everyone elses is, but if they don't have to then I cannot do anything else about it.
thanks again

planning_officer

There's actually no legal requirement for a council to publicise a planning application in any particular way - all the legislation says is that it should be publicised, but it doesn't say how. Therefore, all councils have different methods - we write to all adjoining neighbours for every development, and site notices are only put up for certain types of application - listed buildings, in conservation areas, major development, etc. I know another council where they don't write to anyone and just put a site notice up for every application.

As a long as the application is publicised in some way (neighbour letters, site notice, newspaper ad etc) and a period of 21 days is left for people to comment, then the council have satisfied the legislation.

seven-day-weekend

When I was working in Planning, our usual method of publicity was to write to adjoining neighbours. Only if it was a large development were more people written to, and a site notice posted, and if the site was a listed building and/or conservation area then there was a press notice too.

But usually only adjoning neighbours were notified.

As for publishing everything on the parish notice board, that may be fine for a small village, but doesn't work in a city of 300,000 people!

So yes, what Planning Officer says is correct, the only legal requirement is to publicise it in some way and allow three weeks during the life of the application for comments.

mikee_j

planning_officer wrote: »

There's actually no legal requirement for a council to publicise a planning application in any particular way - all the legislation says is that it should be publicised, but it doesn't say how. Therefore, all councils have different methods - we write to all adjoining neighbours for every development, and site notices are only put up for certain types of application - listed buildings, in conservation areas, major development, etc. I know another council where they don't write to anyone and just put a site notice up for every application.

As a long as the application is publicised in some way (neighbour letters, site notice, newspaper ad etc) and a period of 21 days is left for people to comment, then the council have satisfied the legislation.

The statutory requirments for the method of advertising is actually set out in the General Development Procedure Order 1995, which specifies the method of advertising based on the type of development. For most development it will involve either displaying a site notice for 21 days or writing to the adjoiing owners, plus advertising in the local newspaper. Sorry, been studying for my RICS final assessments so i'm full of useless planning knowledge!

Personally, i think the need for advertising in the newsapaper should be stopped. Think of the amount of money the council can save from not having to advertise by this method.

With regards to the original question, i would stick up the site notice on a nearby telegraph pole for 21 days. there is no requirement to post an additional notice anywhere else, i.e. in the post ofice.

seven-day-weekend

We only used to do a Press Notice if the application involved a Listed Building and/or a Conservation area, or was major redevelopment of a large area. As you say, the cost is prohibitive otherwise.

It's not really necessary for Mr Smith's application to erect a conservatory on his suburban semi to be advertised in the press!

planning_officer

mikee_j wrote: »

The statutory requirments for the method of advertising is actually set out in the General Development Procedure Order 1995, which specifies the method of advertising based on the type of development.

This only applies to a very small number of types of development - paragraph 8 of the GDPO states that major developments should be advertised by way of site notice or neighbour letters, and the only other type of development mentioned is mineral working.

So for the most common types of application - householders etc, the legislation is quite silent, leaving it up to LPAs to have their own methods of publicising applications.

whitts

Thanks for all your posts
My concern about this application is i objected on the first application which was advertised around my village it was then withdrawn, now on this one exactly the same plans it is only on the telegraph post outside the house however everyother application in the village is displayed on the parish notice board. I feel all application should be treated the same.

planning_officer

whitts wrote: »

Thanks for all your posts
My concern about this application is i objected on the first application which was advertised around my village it was then withdrawn, now on this one exactly the same plans it is only on the telegraph post outside the house however everyother application in the village is displayed on the parish notice board. I feel all application should be treated the same.

I agree that consistency would be nice! However, it would be highly unusual for a District Council (as the Local Planning Authority) to put a notice on a village notice board, particularly as they don't own it! It may be the Parish Council doing this, just to inform villagers, as it's their notice board - whilst there's no legislation requiring them to do so, you could ask if they intend to do the same for the current application.