Local Validation Requirement

Application form, including completed ownership certificate & agricultural land declaration.

Planning application, fire statement and Crown Development forms: templates - GOV.UK

Planning applications - Planning applications - Planning Portal

Making an application - GOV.UK

Find and download paper forms - Paper Forms - Planning Portal

Article 7 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 (as amended).

Location Plan (based on an up-to-date map, at a scale of either 1:1250 or 1:2500)

Entire application site must be outlined in red, and any other land within the ownership or control of the applicant, outlined in blue. 

Should identify sufficient roads and/or buildings on land adjoining the application site to ensure that the exact location of the application site is clear. 

Should clearly indicate a north point.

Article 7 (1)(c)(ii) of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 (as amended).

Appropriate Fee

Fee Calculator - Planning Portal

The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) Regulations 2012 (as amended)

Making an application - GOV.UK

What is a Design and Access Statement? - Planning Portal

Design and Access Statements: How to write, read and use them - Design Council

Secured by Design - Secured by Design

Article 9 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure (England) (Order) 2015.

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policies ST33 and ST35

Environmental Statement

(where applicable)

Environmental Impact Assessment - GOV.UK

Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017

Biodiversity Net Gain Information

(where applicable) *

Biodiversity net gain - GOV.UK

*Require either the completed metric or a statement of which exemption that you think applies

Schedule 7A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as inserted by Schedule 14 of the Environment Act 2021) 

Article 7 of The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policy ST38

Fire Statements

(where applicable)

Fire safety and high-rise residential buildings (from 1 August 2021) - GOV.UK

Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure and Section 62A Applications) (England) (Amendment) Order 2021.

Information about the proposed use or uses, and the amount of development proposed for each use, is necessary to allow consideration of an application for outline planning permission,

Making an application - GOV.UK

Outline planning consent - Consent types - Planning Portal

Article 5 (3) of the Development Management Procedure Order 2015, an application for outline planning permission must also indicate the area or areas where access points to the development will be situated, even if access has been reserved.

Existing and proposed site/block plan 

Scale of either 1:200 or 1:500

Plans should include the following information (where applicable to the nature and type of development proposed): 

Position of the proposed development relative to the site boundaries and other existing buildings and landscape features on the site. 

Relevant buildings, roads and footpaths on land adjoining the site, sufficient to make clear the relationship of the proposed development to existing neighbouring properties.

Access and parking arrangements, including where applicable visibility splays and vehicle turning arrangements to serve the proposed development, dimensions of parking spaces and where appropriate how they will be allocated to individual plots. 

Landscape proposals drawing showing existing and proposed hard and soft landscape areas. 

Boundary treatment including walls or fencing. 

Areas designated for bin and/or cycle storage to serve the proposed development.

Article 7 (1)(c)(ii) of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 (as amended); being “any other plans, drawings and information necessary to describe the development which is the subject of the application”. 

Making an application - GOV.UK

Existing and proposed floor plans 

Scale of either 1:50 or 1:100 

Plans should show the relationships between existing/proposed rooms, spaces and other physical features. They should include the following information (where applicable to the nature and type of development proposed): 

Annotations which clearly indicate the use of each room within the building(s) and show the location and size of all specific storage spaces

Clear indication where any existing buildings, parts of buildings, other structures and/or individual walls are to be demolished. 

Where garages, bin stores and cycle stores are proposed within a development, floor plans of these should be provided. 

Technical housing standards – nationally described space standard - GOV.UK

Access to and use of buildings: Approved Document M - GOV.UK

Article 7 (1)(c)(ii) of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 (as amended); being “any other plans, drawings and information necessary to describe the development which is the subject of the application”

Making an application - GOV.UK

Bassetlaw Local Plan (Policy 46)

Existing and proposed elevations 

Scale of either 1:50 or 1:100

Plans should include the following information (where applicable to the nature and type of development proposed):  

External materials, finish of windows, doors and any other openings.

Details such as rainwater goods, vents, meter boxes, charge points.

Where buildings are of irregular shape, true elevations should be provided of all external walls / facades, including internal elevations e.g. courtyards and setbacks in the building line. 

Where garages, bin stores and cycle stores are proposed within a development, elevational plans of these should also be provided.

 Article 7 (1)(c)(ii) of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 (as amended); being “any other plans, drawings and information necessary to describe the development which is the subject of the application”

Making an application - GOV.UK

Existing and proposed roof plans 

Scale of either 1:50 or 1:100

Plans should clearly detail the shape of the proposed roof, identifying changes from its existing shape where appropriate by providing existing and proposed versions) and should include details of materials and the location and design of chimneys, vents, plant, lift gear and any other features.

Article 7 (1)(c)(ii) of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 (as amended); being “any other plans, drawings and information necessary to describe the development which is the subject of the application”

Making an application - GOV.UK

Existing and proposed section drawings (cross sections)

Scale of either 1:50 or 1:100 (to replicate the scale of elevations submitted for consistency)

Plans should include the following information (where applicable to the nature and type of development proposed): 
 
Relationships between all new buildings/operational development/engineering operation and any retained adjoining or nearby land and the relationship with adjoining ground levels, including buildings, landscape features and structures adjacent to the site.

Where ground levels are to be altered, both existing and proposed levels should be shown. 

Eaves and foundation details of any new buildings, particularly in relationship to site boundaries (in order to demonstrate that the work can be implemented without encroachment).

Article 7 (1)(c)(ii) of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 (as amended); being “any other plans, drawings and information necessary to describe the development which is the subject of the application”

Making an application - GOV.UK

Existing and proposed site levels and finished floor levels 

An appropriate scale which is commensurate to the size of the site and include relevant adjoining area of land, sufficient to demonstrate all necessary detail.

Plans should include the following information (where applicable to the nature and type of development proposed):  

Ground levels before development and following the development and the finished floor levels of all buildings including existing buildings on the site and on adjoining sites. including boundary conditions inside and outside the site edges  

The levels provided must be related to a clearly identified fixed datum point off-site.

Information provided should take the form of either contour plans or spot levels in addition to cross sections. 

Depending on the nature of the site, existing levels should be provided by way of a topographical survey. 

Where you experience difficulty in accessing adjoining private land in order to establish levels, you should provide a best estimate together with a note stating how you have dealt with the issue.

Article 7 (1)(c)(ii) of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 (as amended); being “any other plans, drawings and information necessary to describe the development which is the subject of the application”

Making an application - GOV.UK

Statements should include the following information:

Details of levels of affordable housing that will be provided in line with national guidance and local policy. 

If the proposal is not to meet the full affordable housing ask the statement must set out relevant and justifiable reasons. If this justification is based on viability the statement must provide fully detailed reasons in line with the requirements of Chapter 5 and Appendix B of the Affordable Housing SPD.
 
Viability appraisals must be completed by a suitably qualified person with supporting evidence. In these situations, the Council will have to appoint its own consultant to validate the viability assessment, the cost of which must be paid for by the applicant.

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policy ST27

Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Document (November 2025).

An Ecological Appraisal, sometimes termed as Biodiversity Assessment Preliminary Ecological Appraisal and Ecological Impact Assessment will be required for all major applications, greenfield developments or for developments which are likely to impact: 

• Hedgerows, mature trees or woodland
• Overgrown or derelict former industrial sites 
• On, adjacent to or near designated sites such as SSSI’s, or other protected sites including Local Wildlife Sites or ancient woodland

An Ecological Appraisal may include several types of protected species surveys or may target one protected species such as bats. A survey or surveys for protected species will be required where: 

• A proposed development affects the roof or roof void of a building of traditional construction
• A bridge, cave, tunnel or cellar
• Proposals in or adjacent to a watercourse, pond, lake or woodland
• Demolition or conversion of a building (e.g. barn)
• Buildings already known to house bat roosts or barn owls.

Where it is identified protected species surveys are required, including additional surveys, these cannot be conditioned and must be submitted prior to determination.

Prepare a planning proposal to avoid harm or disturbance to protected species - GOV.UK

Protected species and development: advice for local planning authorities - GOV.UK

Bats: advice for making planning decisions - GOV.UK

The Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981) 

The Conservation (Natural Habitats etc.) Regulations 2010 

The Conservation of Habitats and Species (Amendment)
Regulations 2012 

The Protection of Badgers Act 1992 

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policy ST38

All applications that are subject to mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain. 

This includes sites where only low value habitats are impacted, such as agricultural land or sparsely vegetated ground/bare earth.

The statement should either give details of, or signpost to where, the following pieces of information can be found within the submitted documents: 

A completed copy of the relevant biodiversity metric tool, showing the anticipated post-development biodiversity value of the site to the extent that this is known

Copies of baseline habitat condition assessments, including supporting evidence. 

The steps taken to minimise adverse biodiversity impacts in line with the mitigation hierarchy and Biodiversity Gain Hierarchy. 

The proposed strategy for meeting the biodiversity gain condition, including the anticipated balance between onsite units, offsite units and statutory credits, if 10% net gain is unlikely to be achieve wholly on-site.

Where available, any information about the location of potential off-site biodiversity units, together with justification of how this responds to Bassetlaw’s local first approach to Biodiversity Net Gain delivery

Further information can be found on our Biodiversity Net Gain page.

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policy ST38

Biodiversity Net Gain Supplementary Planning Document (November 2025).

Proposals for major development or any other development proposals that have the potential to cause disruption including, but not limited to, where demolition is proposed.

The plan must provide sufficient detail to demonstrate that the construction traffic and activity associated with the proposed development works would not cause unacceptable harm to pedestrian, cycle, vehicular and road safety, adversely affect bus or other transport operations, significantly increase traffic congestion, or place unreasonable inconvenience on the day-to-day life of those living, working and visiting nearby. 

If you are unable to provide full details, then a Framework or Draft Construction Management Plan can be provided which outlines areas to be covered as part of the detailed plan which will then be subject to a condition.

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policies ST52 and ST53.

Flood Risk Assessment & Sequential & Exceptions Tests (where applicable)

All proposals for development (including minor development and changes of use) within: 

1. Flood zones 2, 3 or 3b 
2. Flood zone 1 with a site area of 1 hectare or more 
3. Areas with critical drainage problems
4. Flood zone 1 where the strategic flood risk assessment (SFRA) shows it will be at increased risk of flooding during its lifetime 
5. For proposals which increase the vulnerability classification and may be subject to sources of flooding other than rivers or sea

Flood risk and coastal change - GOV.UK

National flood risk standing advice for local planning authorities - GOV.UK

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policy ST50.

Foul Sewage Details

Where proposed development would be served by new or altered non-mains drainage arrangements (which is to be completed on the application form).

Foul drainage assessment form (FDA1) - GOV.UK

The details should include the following: 

Scaled plans showing the location of the proposed installation, including any drainage field or outfall

Details of the proposed installation, including scale plans and sections showing the proposed installation

Where outfall is to ground, percolation test results

Confirmation of whether an Environment Agency discharge permit is required; or whether the installation meets the exemption requirements

Supporting statement detailing whether the non-mains drainage system will have adverse effects. 

Supporting statement demonstrating why connection to the mains sewer is not possible or practical.

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policies ST50 and ST51.

Health Impact Assessment 

Proposals for 50 dwellings or more

Health Impact Assessment Supplementary Planning Document

Rapid Health Impact Assessment Supplementary Planning Document (November 2025)

Heritage Statement

Development proposals for listed building consent, demolition in a Conservation Area or development affecting the setting of a Listed Building or any other heritage asset.

Statements of Heritage Significance: Analysing Significance in Heritage Assets - Historic England Advice Note 12 | Historic England

Conservation and heritage | Bassetlaw District Council

The first part of an assessment should be a statement of significance. The main phases of construction should be identified and significance attached to them.

If major works such as a major refurbishment or extension are envisaged, or if the building is one that would be particularly sensitive to change, a more detailed assessment will be appropriate. Phases of construction should be identified on a plan.

The heritage impact assessment should explain how the proposed works might affect the significance of the building. Changes can alter the historic character of a building dramatically and also affect historic fabric. Ancillary buildings and landscaping will affect setting. The assessment should show that these considerations have been taken into account and the impact of the works mitigated accordingly.

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policies ST40 and 41

Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment

Applications involving any of the following: 

Development proposals located in sensitive and/or highly visible or exposed locations.

Large scale renewable energy developments including proposals for wind turbines and solar farms.

Proposals for new Minerals and Waste facilities, or substantial extensions to existing sites in sensitive locations.

Any other development which is likely to have a significant visual impact within the landscape.

The need for and scope of the LVIA and the viewpoint locations should be agreed with the LPA at the pre-application stage and before the application is submitted. 

Further advice can be found in the Guidelines for a Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (GLVIA) published jointly by the Landscape Institute and the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment in 2013 (third edition)

Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (GLVIA3) – The Landscape Institute

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policy ST35

Landscaping Details

All applications involving any of the following: 

Major development proposals.

Minor developments which result in the creation of new residential curtilages and/or landscaped amenity spaces.

Minor developments which result in the creation of landscaped amenity spaces.

Any other development which involves the creation or loss of landscape features.

The content will depend upon the nature and context of the scheme.

Where it is not possible to provide detailed landscape schemes, sufficient information should be provided that demonstrate overarching landscape strategies, such as areas which will be free from development, and hard or soft landscaped in principle for example through submission of a ‘landscape masterplan’ which shows the location and quantum of landscape elements and Green Infrastructure.

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policy ST35

Lighting Specification

Development proposals which include an element of external illumination (e.g., security lighting of buildings and open areas, car-park lighting, ménage, floodlighting of sports facilities) where the application site is within or in the vicinity of any of the following

• residential areas  
• listed building(s)
• conservation area
• open countryside

The following publications maybe helpful: 

Light pollution - GOV.UK

GN09 Domestic exterior lighting

GN01 For the reduction of obtrusive light 2021

GN08 Bats and Artificial Lighting

Layout plan showing the location of all light fixtures and beam orientation and spread patterns of illuminated areas with specified lux levels.

Elevational details showing the position of the lighting units (whether freestanding or attached to existing buildings or structures

A detailed performance specification of the equipment proposed.

The proposed times at which the lighting will be in use.

An assessment of the impact of the lighting on the adjoining uses’ nearby habitats that may be used by light sensitive wildlife and the locality generally.

Mitigation measures to remove or reduce any adverse impacts identified. 

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policies 46 and ST38

Marketing and Viability Information

All applications which propose the loss of uses protected by policies within the adopted development plan.

The assessment should provide evidence to demonstrate that the existing use is surplus to demand for that type of use and has been marketed as the current use for a sufficient period. The report should include strategic and local assessments of demand and supply, and evidence of vacancy and marketing (at market rates suitable for the type, use and size of premises).

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policy ST43

Noise Impact Assessment 

Proposals for development that: 

1. could cause significant noise disturbance; or
2. for noise sensitive developments, (such as housing, hospitals or schools), that are proposed near to major sources of noise, such as airports, main roads, railway, industrial sites or commercial premises.

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Bassetlaw Local Plan Policy 46

Open Space Assessment 

Where development would result in the loss of open space, whether publicly accessible or a private facility.

Applications should be accompanied by plans showing all areas of existing or proposed open space adjoining or nearby the application site. Planning consent is not normally given for development of existing open spaces which local communities need. An applicant should demonstrate through an independent assessment that the land is surplus to local requirements. 

Further national guidance from the NPPG is contained here: 

Open space, sports and recreation facilities, public rights of way and local green space - GOV.UK

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policies ST43 and ST44

Open Space Assessment Update 2020

Planning Obligations/Draft Heads of Terms

All applications which propose development which trigger any requirement for planning obligations in accordance with Bassetlaw Local Plan policies.

Early pre-application discussions should take place with the council to establish the scope and scale of any obligation required prior to the submission of the application. 

Details should also be provided of the contact details of your legal representative and evidence of title or confirmation that the title owner(s) will be in a position to enter into such an Agreement.

Planning Obligations Supplementary Planning Documents

Planning Statement 

Development proposals that involve any of the following

Major developments (including applications for outline permission and approval of reserved matters)

Creation of Houses in Multiple Occupation

Changes of use which 
include the creation of 
accommodation for children or 
vulnerable adults. 

Seeking the removal or 
variation of planning 
conditions

The statement should include a summary of the proposed development, its key impacts and should include

A description of the site, its context and planning history.

A summary of relevant national and local planning policies and guidance (without reproducing their full text).

Explanations as to how/why the proposed development accords or fails to accord with them.

Any other information that is materially relevant to planning and to the proposed development, but which is not addressed in other submission documents.

Where proposals have been subject to pre-application advice from the council, applicants should provide an explanation of whether that advice has fed into the final proposals, and how this has been achieved. Where advice has not been taken into account, the statement should explain in what ways the advice has not been followed and provide the justification for this.

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Recreational Impact Assessment 

50 or more dwellings falling within the 10km impact zone of Clumber Park SSSI

A site-specific assessment of recreational pressure. This should include appropriate mitigation measures, where appropriate.

More details/information can be found here: 

Clumber Park SSSI Recreational Impact Supplementary Planning Document

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policy ST38

Clumber Park SSSI Recreational Impact Supplementary Planning Document

Retail & Leisure Impact Assessment

Relevant thresholds are set out in Policy ST11 of the Bassetlaw Local Plan 2020-2038

Town centres and retail - GOV.UK

The assessment should detail likely effects on the viability and vitality of existing centres and on any planned investment. The application must be accompanied by

An assessment of the need for the proposed development 

Evidence that the development is of an appropriate scale 

Evidence to show that there are no other town centre-based sites for the development  

Evidence that there are no unacceptable impacts on existing centres and

Evidence that the location(s) are accessible.

In preparing the assessment, applicants should also have regard to the scale of the proposal relative to existing centres and the cumulative impacts of recent developments.

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policies ST10 and ST11

Structural Survey

Where a new use is being introduced into an existing building and there are considerable works necessary, such as a barn conversion.

A structural survey should be submitted to illustrate the capability of the building to accommodate the proposed works and how it will be managed during the works to prevent its reconstruction and only a minimum of alteration or change.

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policy 41

Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) Strategy

Major development proposals with surface water drainage (including outline applications)

All new development will be expected to use Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) unless it can be demonstrated that SuDS are impractical. 

Outline planning applications must be supported by a conceptual drainage plan and SuDS design statement. 

Detailed planning applications must be supported by a detailed drainage plan and SuDS design statement, which should contain information on how the SuDS will operate, be managed and maintained for the lifetime of the development and include measures to avoid water contamination and safeguard groundwater supply.

If SuDS are not possible the details should include a statement explaining why. If an application proposes to connect a development to an existing drainage system, then details of the existing system should be shown on the application drawings.

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policy ST50

Sustainability Statement

(This can be included in the Planning Statement but should be clearly labelled as such)

All major developments 

This should provide details of sustainable design and construction measures showing how energy and water use and materials will be employed. The assessment should employ BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environment Assessment Method. 

More information is found at www.breeam.org 

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Telecommunications Development - Supplementary Information

Applications for mast and antenna development by mobile phone network operators

A range of supplementary information including 

The area of search

Details of any consultation undertaken

Details of the proposed structure

Technical justification

Information about the proposed development. 

Applications must also be accompanied by a signed declaration that the equipment and installation has been designed to be in full compliance with the requirements of the radio frequency public exposure guidelines of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP).

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policy ST55

The Code of Practice on Mobile Network Development in England (2016)

Transport Assessment 

Relevant thresholds are set out in Policy ST52 of the Bassetlaw Local Plan 2020-2038

The specific content and detail of the Transport Assessment will depend on size, nature and location of development but should include

How accessible the development is by all modes of transport.

Whether the site access can accommodate the predicted level of traffic

Impacts on the wider highway network, including existing and proposed infrastructure

Transport impact mitigation measures

What measures can be undertaken to encourage travel by walking, cycling and public transport. 

Further guidance can be found here: 

Travel Plans, Transport Assessments and Statements - GOV.UK

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policy ST52

Travel Plan 

Relevant thresholds are set out in Policy ST52 of the Bassetlaw Local Plan 2020-2038

Any Travel Plan should identify a package of measures to be implemented, monitored, and reviewed to encourage new occupiers or customers of the development to use alternative means of transport to the use of cars/private vehicles. It should also include details of targets and arrangements for monitoring. 

Further guidance can be found here: 

Travel Plans, Transport Assessments and Statements - GOV.UK

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policy ST52

Tree Survey

If the development directly affects existing trees within or adjacent to the site boundaries

Where there are trees within the application site, or on adjacent land that could influence or be affected by the development (including street trees), information will need to be submitted on which trees are to be retained, which to be felled and on the means of protecting trees during construction works.
 
This information should be prepared by a person competent to do so.

Full guidance on the survey information, protection plan and method statement that should be provided with an application is set out in the current BS5837 ‘Trees in relation to construction – Recommendations’. 

Using the methodology set out in the BS should help to ensure that development is suitably integrated with trees and that potential conflicts are avoided.

Bassetlaw Local Plan Policies ST38 and ST39 

Trees and Development Supplementary Planning Document February 2026

Waste Storage and Collection Details

Development proposals involving any of the following: 

Creation of new residential units (including subdivision and conversion schemes)

New commercial development

Creation of Houses in Multiple Occupation

Any material change of use which will necessitate the storage and collection of waste.

The information should include details of refuse and recycling storage locations and access arrangements for collection. 

Any proposed means of enclosure should also be detailed on plans.

Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Waste Local Plan