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Getting Advice on Planning Applications

Pre-application Advice on Planning Applications

General planning advice can be provided over the telephone on (01789) 260303 and (01789) 260304.

Staff within the Customer Service Centre can use our electronic databases to provide factual advice such as:

Planning site history
Whether a site lies within a Conservation Area, Flood Zone, the Green Belt or the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)
Whether there are trees protected by a Tree Preservation Order on a site
Whether identified buildings are Listed Buildings
Current saved policies in the Local Plan Review
They can provide an overview on the progress of a planning application.
They can also print location and/or block plans for your site to enable you to submit your planning application (charges apply).

If your query requires professional advice from a planning officer, our Customers Services Staff will transfer you to the duty planning officer, who can help you with basic planning advice.

If your query is clearly site-specific and requires a planning officer to carry out research work or liaise with other professional colleagues in order to respond, you will be asked to make a written request for detailed advice using a pre-application advice form. The following charges will be introduced from Monday 15th August 2011 for all Non-Householder advice requests. There are currently no charge for householder advice requests.

Fees

View Pre Application Advice Fees

Advice on the lawfulness of development

Officers will not give any advice, other than basic verbal advice, on the lawfulness of a use/site/building (including whether a development has been commenced).

Some developments, including some changes of use, are deemed to be permitted development, in accordance with the General Permitted Development Order 1995 (as amended).

For a formal determination on the lawfulness of a development (either proposed or existing ), you will need to make an application for a Certificate of Lawfulness

Pre Application Advice for All Non Householder applications

There are many documents and websites that can help you in preparing your planning application. When making a planning application, you should consider the merits of the development proposal and the process of making an application.

The Development Plan for Stratford-on-Avon District currently comprises 3 documents:

The West Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy

The Warwickshire Structure Plan (5 saved policies only)

The Warwickshire Structure Plan

The Stratford-on-Avon Local Plan Review

As well as the relevant Development Plan policies, you should give consideration to the relevance of current supplementary planning guidance documents (SPG) , supplementary planning documents (SPD), Parish Plans, Housing Needs Surveys, Village Design Statements and the Stratford-on-Avon District Design Guide

When making your application, you will need to submit all the necessary plans and supporting information. Our validation checklist will help you to prepare your application.

You may also wish to use the fee calculator on the planning portal website

The planning portal provides helpful advice on many planning matters, including national guidance and policy documents

If you wish to seek advice from one of our planners before making a formal application, we would ask that you complete and return our pre-application form (link below) with as many of the requested documents as appropriate to the scale and complexity of the proposed development.

Pre Application Form All Non Householder

Pre-application advice on householders

Please complete the Pre-Application Planning Advice Householder - Listed Building form if you are considering carrying out work that requires Listed Building Consent.

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Downloads:
Pre Application Advice Fees 2011 (18KB PDF) | West Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy - January 2008 (10233KB PDF) | Warwickshire Structure Plan (66KB PDF) | Stratford-on-Avon District Design Guide (4300KB PDF) | Planning Application Validation Checklist - updated April 2009 (758KB PDF) | Pre Application Form All Non Householder (50KB PDF) | Pre Application Form Householders (49KB PDF) | Pre Application Form Listed Building (77KB PDF) | Help with PDFs

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Stratford-on-Avon District Council
Elizabeth House,
Church Street,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire,
CV37 6HX

E: info@stratford-dc.gov.uk
Tel: 01789 267 575
Fax: 01789 260 007
Minicom: 01789 260 747
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