Planning applications
How to make a planning application
Once you have identified if you need planning permission,
you can
submit your application online via the National Planning
Portal. Register your details, logon and choose
'Knowsley' as the local authority before making your
application. If you prefer, you can complete the
relevant Application
Form and send by post.
From 6 April 2010
Design and Access Statements will be required for all planning
applications except:
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Engineering or mining operations
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Development of an existing dwellinghouse, or development within
the curtilage of a dwellinghouse for any purpose incidental to the
enjoyment of the dwellinghouse, where no part of that dwellinghouse
or curtilage is within a ‘designated area’ (see definition
below)
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A material change in the use of land or buildings, unless it
also involves operational development
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Extensions to the time limits for implementing existing planning
permissions
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Development of an existing flat for any purpose incidental to
the enjoyment of the flat as such, where no part of that flat is
within a ‘designated area’
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The extension of an existing building used for non-domestic
purposes where the floorspace created by the development does not
exceed 100 square metres and where no part of the building or the
development is within a ‘designated area’
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The erection, construction, improvement or alteration of a gate,
fence, wall or other means of enclosure, up to 2m high or the
height of the existing means of enclosure, whichever is the higher,
where no part of the building or the development is within a
‘designated area’ or the curtilage of a listed building
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Development on ‘operational land’ consisting of the erection of
a building or structure up to 100 cubic metres in volume and 15m in
height and where no part of the development is within a ‘designated
area’
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The alteration of an existing building where the alteration does
not increase the size of the building and where no part of the
building or the development is within a ‘designated area’
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The erection, alteration or replacement of plant or machinery
where, as a result of the development, the height of the plant or
machinery would not exceed the greater of 15 metres above ground
level, or the height of the original plant or machinery, and where
no part of the development is within a ‘designed area’; or
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Applications for the variation or removal of conditions attached
to a planning permission (development of land pursuant to section
73 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990)
Definitions:
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‘Designated Area’ means a World Heritage Site or a conservation
area
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‘Operational Land’ is land used by Statutory Undertakers for the
purpose of carrying on their undertaking. ‘Statutory Undertakers’
are those authorised by any enactment to carry on any railway,
light railway, tramway, road transport, water transport, canal,
inland navigation, dock, harbour, pier or lighthouse undertaking or
any undertaking for the supply of hydraulic power and a relevant
airport operator
In addition Design and Access Statements are not required
for the following types of application:
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Advertisement applications
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Tree preservation orders (TPOs)
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Applications for the storage of hazardous substances
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Non-material amendments
Design and Access Statements are
required for applications for listed building
consent.
For guidance on how to read, write and use design access
statements, visit the Commission
for Architecture and the Built Environment website (CABE).
Viewing, tracking and commenting on planning
applications
Once you have submitted your planning application you can track
its progress through Knowsley's Public Access system.
Public Access
also allows anyone to view all applications submitted to the
council so that they can:
- Search a list of applications validated or decided each
week.
- View and download copies of drawings and documents submitted
with applications.
- Submit comments about an application.
- Monitor the progress of an application.
- Check any constraints associated with a site.
- View whether an appeal has been lodged and any appeal
decisions.
- View details of historic applications.
- View property details by reference to a map.
- View recent Planning Committee reports and decision
notices.
People viewing this information may include residents and
members of the public if they are planning to oppose a particular
application.