Planning application Local Requirements: Guidance notes for documentation R-W

Proposed arrangements and collection of refuse and recycling, to include refuse points/frequency.

Necessary for all applications for new buildings or extensions and relevant changes of use.

Consult Barnet’s Street Services Team for specific advice 020 8359 4600 on refuse storage.

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

London Plan policy SI 7

Barnet Local Plan 2025 policy ECC04

Barnet Sustainable Design and Development Guidance  SPD

Scale 1:100 or 1:50, ensuring plans have a drawing number and are titled.

Plans for any roof created or altered by the development, showing shape of roof, its location and specifying roofing material to be used.

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015

Original documentation should be submitted plus 3 copies.

Scale 1:100 or 1:50, ensuring plans have a drawing number and are titled.

Should show how development relates to existing site levels and adjacent development (with levels related to a fixed datum point off site), details of existing and proposed foundations and eaves where a change is proposed, and how encroachment onto adjoining land is to be avoided. Changes within 15m of trees on or near the site should be shown.

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015

Original documentation should be submitted plus 3 copies.

Large scale major applications will need to be accompanied by a Statement setting out how they have complied with Barnet’s Statement of Community Involvement and showing how the views of the local community have been sought and taken into account.

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

NPPF chapter 4

Barnet Statement of Community Engagement

Scale 1:100 or 1:200, ensuring plans have a drawing number and are titled. Existing buildings should be accurately shown with reference made on the drawings to floor and/or eaves and ridge heights.

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015

Applicable for all applications where there is a potential significant adverse impact upon the current levels of sunlight/daylight enjoyed by adjoining properties and buildings.

In addition to residential accommodation, sensitive land uses may include many types of social and community infrastructure, including schools, hospitals and nursery facilities, as well as types of specialist housing such as elderly housing and care homes.

May also be required to show that adequate light is available for occupiers of new residential development, provided by new build or conversions.

Please seek advice from the Planning Service.

The assessment should conform to the methodology identified in the Building Research Establishment guidance.

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

Barnet Local Plan 2025 policies CDH01 and CDH02

Barnet Sustainable Design and Development Guidance SPD

BRE guidance: ‘Site layout planning for daylight and sunlight: A guide to good practice’ (2021).

For minor developments.

to show how the development meets all the standards specified in the Council’s ‘Sustainable Design and Construction’ Supplementary Planning Document SPD or any subsequently updated version), including compliance with Mayor’s energy hierarchy, cooling hierarchy, use of renewable energies and show how sustainable design and construction techniques are incorporated to enable development to mitigate and adapt to climate change

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

Barnet Local Plan 2025 policies CDH02 and ECC01

Barnet Sustainable Design and Development Guidance SPD

Required for developments of 8 storeys and above or 26m above ground level, to include the following:

• Townscape and visual impact assessment to include assessment from local and strategic designated views. Viewpoints to be verified Accurate Visual Representations (to be clarified during pre-application process) including impacts for heritage assets
• Wind micro-climate study
• Sunlight, daylight, temperature impacts on surrounding area
• Lighting assessment to address light pollution to surrounding area from internal and external sources

Assessments to be carried out in accordance with up to date guidance including assessing impacts of scale, massing and height on the townscape, impacts on local character, with reference to most recent character studies and local evidence.

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

London Plan policies D1, D4 and D9

Barnet Local Plan 2025 policies CDH02, CDH04 and ECC01

Barnet Sustainable Design and Development Guidance SPD

To include:

• area of search
• evidence that mast/ site sharing has been considered
• details of any consultation undertaken
• where near a school or college, evidence that relevant body has been consulted
• details of proposed structure and technical justification and information about the proposed development, inc. purpose and need
• details of frequency and modulation characteristics and power output
• applications should also be accompanied by a signed declaration that the equipment and installation has been designed in full compliance with the requirements of the radio frequency, public exposure guidelines of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection.

Further guidance set out in the Code of Practice on Mobile Network Development (2002)

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

NPPF chapter 10

Barnet Local Plan 2025 policy TRC04

Code of Practice on Mobile Network Development

The level and type of evidence and analysis required will depend on the scale and nature of the proposal.

A main town centre use includes retail development, leisure, entertainment facilities and more intensive sport and recreational uses (including cinemas, restaurants, drive-through restaurants, bars and pubs, nightclubs, casinos, health and fitness centres, indoor bowling centres, bingo halls), offices, arts, culture and tourism development (including theatres, museums, galleries and concert halls, hotels and conference facilities). It includes applications for additional floorspace, including internal alterations requiring planning permission and applications to remove or vary conditions changing the range of goods sold.

A sequential assessment is required for planning applications for main town centres uses that are not in an existing major, district or local town centre.

An assessment addressing the impacts is required for planning applications for retail and leisure developments over 500 square metres gross floorspace that are not in an existing district or major town centre.

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

NPPF –chapter 7

Barnet Local Plan 2025 policy TOW01

Setting out how the proposal mitigates any negative impact on the existing transport network and incorporates sustainable transport initiatives for cycling, walking, car clubs and electric vehicle charging;

A Transport Statement is required for smaller developments. This should set out the transport issues relating to a proposed development site and details of the proposed development.

A Transport Assessment is required for larger developments and should cover i) reducing the need to travel, especially by car, ii) sustainable accessibility, iii) dealing with residual trips and iv) mitigation measures. Transport Assessment is a comprehensive and systematic process that sets out transport issues relating to a proposed development. Information will include all existing and proposed commercial, residential and other vehicular and pedestrian movements to and from the site. Loading areas and arrangements for manoeuvring, servicing and parking of vehicles should also be clearly identified. It should describe and analyse existing transport conditions, how the development would affect those conditions and any measures proposed to overcome any problems. The Assessment should illustrate accessibility to the site by all modes of transport and likely modal split and proposed measures to improve access by public transport, walking and cycling.

Further information can be found in Guidance on Transport Assessment (2007) by Dept. for Transport. This also sets out thresholds for the level of assessment required depending on the type of development proposed.

Also, Transport for London’s Transport Assessment Best Practice 2010.

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

Barnet Local Plan 2025 policies TRC01, TRC02 and TRC03

Setting out details on how the proposal minimises any increase in road traffic and how future occupants will be encouraged to use more sustainable and active modes of transport and demonstrate how the development will contribute to Barnet meeting its 72% target for sustainable modes by 2041 as set out in the Mayor’s Transport Strategy and the Barnet Long Term Transport Strategy (2020-2041)

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

Barnet Planning Obligations SPD

Barnet Local Plan 2025 Policies TRC01 and TRC03

Where there are trees within the application site or on land adjacent to it that could influence or be affected by the development (including street trees), information will be required on which trees are to be removed, which trees are to be retained and which trees are to be affected and on the means of protecting these trees during construction works.

For proposals involving operational development, a plan to show the location of all trees within 15m (edge of trunk) in relation to the development is required.

Where the application involves works that may affect any trees within or adjacent to the application site, the species, location, size (height, spread, trunk diameter) of trees should be illustrated accurately on the site plan. This must indicate those trees to be retained and those proposed to be felled or affected by the proposed development. A statement in relation to the measures to be adopted during construction works to protect those trees shown to be retained on the submitted drawings may also be necessary. Further guidance is also provided in BS5837:2012: Trees in relation to design, demolition and construction: Recommendations

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

London Plan policy G7

Barnet Local Plan 2025 policies CDH07 and ECC07

Green Infrastructure SPD 2017

BS 5837:2012

Necessary for example; for air conditioning units, mechanical ventilation and extraction for hot food takeaways, restaurants, commercial, industrial etc. Details may be required for other developments where ventilation is proposed.

Details should include a full description and scale diagram of the system including noise levels of the units, the height of any flue and their distance from noise sensitive premises.

Useful references for air quality can be found in Barnet Supplementary Planning Documentary: Sustainable Design and Construction

Consult Barnet’s Environmental Health Team for specific advice 020 8359 7995.

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

Barnet Local Plan 2025 policy ECC02

Barnet Sustainable Design and Development Guidance SPD

A 3D massing model exported in FBX format which has been created in any of the following software packages: AutoCAD, 3DS Max/Maya, Rhino, SketchUp, and Revit. The model must be geo located in Ordnance Survey space, in metre (m) units. It should have fewer than 65,000 vertices, and should not include any internal information (external form only).

The Planning Portal does not accept this file format. Please email your model to planning.vetting@barnet.gov.uk with your planning portal reference number or details of the site address.

Please note maximum file size of 20MB.

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

London Plan policies D1, D4 and D9

Barnet Local Plan 2025 policies CDH02, CDH03 and CDH04

Barnet Sustainable Design and Development Guidance SPD

Required for all applications referrable to the Mayor of London and for major applications involving substantial demolition.

Substantial demolition will include total demolition of a building, façade retention redevelopment schemes and other redevelopment schemes where only the superstructure is being retained.

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

London Plan Policy SI 2

Barnet Local Plan 2025 policy

Barnet Local Plan 2025 policies CDH02 and ECC01

For applications involving replacement windows in a conservation area, a window schedule with elevations and cross-section detail (existing and proposed) drawings at scale 1: 10 or 1:5. Drawings should confirm that no external trickle vents are proposed.

Policy Driver or Legislative Background

NPPF chapter 16

Barnet Local Plan 2025 policy CDH08

Barnet Conservation Area Character Appraisals and Design Guidance