OS planning map for planning permission

RobinG

Does anyone know of a good place to get free OS planning maps of your house location to go with a planning permission application...?? To cut a long story short I ain't going down the certificate of lawful development route for 75 quid to tell me whether I need p.p. or not for a pitched roof over my garage and porch. A full pp application is 150 but it needs to be supplied with said OS location maps at further cost.....!!!

What a jip...!! anyone got any ideas?

Debt_Free_Chick

They're available for around £25-£30, not £75.

You can't get an OS map free - at least not legitimately, as they're Crown Copyright.

dander

Does it have to be OS?
For my recent building regs application I just used the location plan that was in my files from when I bought the house.

AdrianW2

The plans in all of the HIPs I've seen have been based on OS data and as such are Crown Copyright.

You could try OpenStreetMap, who have variable quality mapping - a very tiny proportion of it large enough scale to map individual buildings but they also have the tools to make your own.

There's a new outfit doing large scale mapping of cities, at the moment they've just got London, so OS will have competition soon.

Wherryman

Our local library used to allow people to photocopy their OS maps as long as it was only in A4 size and for personal and non-commercial use only which were the OS terms and conditions of use.

planning_officer

You can buy them via the Planning Portal website for around £20 - and emailed straight to you. Like others have said, OS maps are copyrighted so they won't be free, although if you're feeling cheeky, have a look on your Council's website to see if any neighbours have submitted planning applications recently and if the plans are online, try and copy (i.e. trace over) a location plan from their application.

For a full planning application, you will need a location plan at 1:1250 or 1:2500 scale and a site plan (or block plan) at a scale of 1:200 or 1:500.

AdrianW2

planning_officer wrote: »

although if you're feeling cheeky, have a look on your Council's website to see if any neighbours have submitted planning applications recently and if the plans are online, try and copy (i.e. trace over) a location plan from their application.

The OS still consider tracing over maps to be a breach of their copyright, and no one's been brave enough to contest that view in court.

If that doesn't bother you, then you could see of you council has an online service like ours does (Bucks Maps) that includes 1:1250 mapping.

planning_officer wrote: »

For a full planning application, you will need a location plan at 1:1250 or 1:2500 scale and a site plan (or block plan) at a scale of 1:200 or 1:500.

Are there any accuracy requirements? I'm curious, because any fool can produce a 1:500 map using a GPS these days but making a halfway accurate one still requires the right kit and training.

planning_officer

True - I realise that tracing an OS map is breaching the copyright (original poster - do it at your own risk!!)

In terms of accuracy, obviously the site plans etc need to be accurate - I've come across site plans which look fine on paper yet when you go on site, you quickly realise they're not accurate - e.g. plot width is different in reality. I had one once where someone was proposing a side extension which looked ok on the plans, yet when measuring out on site, the extension couldn't actually fit in the plot and would have extended into the neighbouring garden!