Planning application - council site visit advance notice?

AugieMarch

When you apply for planning, some representatives of the council come out to the site at some point to check the trial hole for themselves, correct?

Does this happen out of the blue, or are you given notice about when they will arrive? Presumably they can't just waltz onto private property without alerting you at least. I'm just wondering what kind of advance warning to expect.

Gumbo

AugieMarch wrote: »

When you apply for planning, some representatives of the council come out to the site at some point to check the trial hole for themselves, correct?

Does this happen out of the blue, or are you given notice about when they will arrive? Presumably they can't just waltz onto private property without alerting you at least. I'm just wondering what kind of advance warning to expect.

planners may not decide to inspect the trial hole.
You Engineers calculations as submitted with the application will be sent to the drainage engineer for that area to view and highlight any issues that may arise.

AugieMarch

Thanks for the reply.

So let's say they do decide to inspect the trial hole, and they see that it's now almost full of water, whereas the engineer's report was written in a drier part of the year when the water table was a lot lower.

Would that cause them to reject an application do you think? Or would they take into account the levels of rainfall we've had, the higher seasonal water table, etc., and essentially take the engineer's word for the kind of treatment system that is suitable for the site?

sydthebeat

AugieMarch wrote: »

When you apply for planning, some representatives of the council come out to the site at some point to check the trial hole for themselves, correct?

Does this happen out of the blue, or are you given notice about when they will arrive? Presumably they can't just waltz onto private property without alerting you at least. I'm just wondering what kind of advance warning to expect.

who ever does the percolation test for you is supposed to give the council advanced warning of when the holes will be ready, in case they may want to inspect the holes themselves.

They do not give you notification of when they might call out.

AugieMarch

sydthebeat wrote: »

who ever does the percolation test for you is supposed to give the council advanced warning of when the holes will be ready, in case they may want to inspect the holes themselves.

They do not give you notification of when they might call out.

So they just turn up at the site and go straight in to it to look at the hole? Would they not require permission of the property owner to enter the property?

Metric Tensor

I know of at least one county where you are required to sign a form accompanying your planning application that gives them permission to access your property for just such purposes.

Although I strongly suspect they are being on the safe side because I'd imagine there is a law or at the minimum a precedent that says by asking them for planning permission your are tacitly giving permission to enter your property for the purposes of assessing this application!

tldr; They can and do show up whenever they want.

P.S. If you do get planning permission are you planning to stop sh!tting every winter?!

AugieMarch

Metric Tensor wrote: »

I know of at least one county where you are required to sign a form accompanying your planning application that gives them permission to access your property for just such purposes.

Although I strongly suspect they are being on the safe side because I'd imagine there is a law or at the minimum a precedent that says by asking them for planning permission your are tacitly giving permission to enter your property for the purposes of assessing this application!

tldr; They can and do show up whenever they want.

P.S. If you do get planning permission are you planning to stop sh!tting every winter?!

I don't sh!t in winter anyway. What do you think I am, some kind of animal?

But yeah, I suspect you're right there.

Gumbo

AugieMarch wrote: »

So they just turn up at the site and go straight in to it to look at the hole? Would they not require permission of the property owner to enter the property?

You are giving them permission by virtue of lodging the application.
Same as building control, they will turn up and enter the site without notice.

nice_guy80

did my percolation test 3 years ago
filled in the hole a few weeks back
oh oh