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Where to submit your planning application on Hackney’s council website?

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In this post we’ll show you where to go to submit your planning application in Hackney.

Video on Where to go to submit your planning application in Hackney’s website

Resources

  • Planning portal search [link]
  • Planning application submission page [link]
  • Hackney council’s website [link]
  • Hackney council’s planning fees [link]
  • Blog on permissible works that do not need planning permission [link]

Transcription

[00:00:00] Bhavesh Ramburn: Hi. Today I’m gonna show you how to get to the planning application on Hackney government website. First thing you wanna do is type in hackney.gov.uk. Once you’ve loaded the page on your browser, head to menu, then you scroll down to planning and building and then make a planning application. You can also look at.

[00:00:30] Existing planning applications by clicking search view and comment on planning application. But for now, we’ll go on making a planning application. Once you’ve clicked this column a new column comes up. And once you’ve gone through the list of approvals making sure that you do need a planning permission.

[00:00:50] And if you do not, There’s a link in our blog to highlight the types of applications that do [00:01:00] not need planning permissions. So once you’ve gone and checked that you do need to prepare a planning application, you click on, submit your planning application, click show and submit. Planning application. At the bottom of the page there’s a submit an application button, which takes you to form to complete and uploading all your documents for the planning application.

[00:01:28] There is a cost for the planning, so what I’ve done is open up the document here, which acks around a basic, sorry, a full application costing around 407. For any operations to your property, you can take, you can get a copy of this document by going to the main page that we were on, Hackney dot go uk slash submit hyphen planning, hyphen application, [00:02:00] and clicking on the link.

[00:02:03] Planning application fees, which brings up this pdf. I will link to this document within the post so that you know where to get this information quickly. There are other cases of change of use and other cost associated with the planning service, which you can review at your own time. Once you’ve submitted your application,

[00:02:28] You can follow through with your planning permission by clicking on menu planning and building and search view comment on black planning application, which brings you to the full web search portal for Hackney. This gives you the ability to search for other planning applications in your area, and we will go through this in the separate video.

[00:02:56] If you need more information about planning permission, [00:03:00] please don’t hesitate to leave. Comment on video or the block post.

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What is a provisional sum?

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A provisional sum is a sum of money allocated for a particular activity that is not fully defined, but it needs to be considered for a construction project.

In the context of measured building survey and topographical survey an architect may request for a provisional sum quotation to propose to their client.

What this means is that the client or architect is not entirely aware of the extent of the construction proposal and would need a ball park figure to add in their budget. This happens because of a few reasons:

  • The client is not decided on the extension option of their property (i.e. roof extension or ground floor extension)
  • The planning application may be complicated and the outcome of the planning process may determine the option to go for
  • The client is just looking for a budget price to get a loan

The provisional sum on its own is not part of the scope for deliverable until the client instruct it to be included. When the client instructs the architect or surveyor they will then confirm the scope and price (if there are any changes) and it will proceed.

The client does not need to pay for the provisional sum in the contract as it is not defined as a deliverable.

Important:

Make sure the provisional sum is itemised in the quotation as it will make it easier to identify only the amount due to the contractor/surveyor/designer when they apply for their fees. It is quite common for poorly managed practices to ‘hide’ the provisional sum value within a lump sum but never deliver the item.

Remember:

The contractor/surveyor/designer will not need to deliver the provisional sum until it is instructed to proceed.

You can get a quote for a measured building or topographical survey from us by contacting us at info@icelabz.co.uk.

 

How to get the best Prices for a Measured Building Survey or Topographical Survey?

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We get over 20+ enquiries in a week, some of the time the client has no clue what they are requesting as they have been directed by their architect or a friend. Sometimes it confuses the client, and he or she ends up paying for too much or ‘quite often’ too little.

Coming from a commercial background and looking after projects in the £millions, we have to take certain steps to ensure that we get the best value for money and that we are not underserved or over-served. This is one of the reasons you engage a quantity surveyor on your project – to ensure you are purchasing the right service for the right price and the right contract.

In this article I am going to show you a few things to consider when requesting for prices (quotes) for your measured building survey and topographical survey. This will ensure you get a comparable survey which will give you the most competitive and correct quote for your job.

 

#1 Prepare and send the same scope of work to all the surveyors

Most of the time you would be provided with a brief scope from your architect or nothing at all. You might just be asked to get a measured building survey or topographical survey of your property, and that is it. This can be difficult for the surveyor to price and quote the job properly and cause for back and forth communication until the scope is defined. This can happen with several other surveyors and they might each price something differently.

If the scope is correctly defined, all the tenderers (surveyors) will need to have the same & correct information to price on. Most surveyors will just need the minimum of the following information:

  • Full address of the property (with a site plan)
  • Rough area per floor
  • How many plans and type (floor plans, sections, elevations, etc…)

To help you, we have written this very simple scope sheet that you can use to send to the surveyors in your area to get a quote.

 

#2 Do your due-diligence – check their insurances

Most land surveyors that you will find online or in the yellow pages do not have insurance or the wrong type of insurance. This is a must if they are working on your property and delivering work for your architect and the rest of your project. If they provided the wrong information and your architect & builder relies on it and caused you financial loss for the mistake you need to ensure that the surveyor is covered for this and compensate for the mistake. Without insurance you cannot recover the losses you have incurred.

You need to ensure their insurance covers their service; i.e. land surveying or measured building survey. You also need to ensure that they have insurance to cover damages to your property while they are within your premises or to the public.

 

#3 Ask for samples (if they have not provided them)

Each surveyor or surveying company have their format of producing the plans for your property. Some are cumbersome, and some have too little details. This is also another way to check the skills of the surveying company – you get to see what they can produce.

If most of their plans look ‘squared up’ then the method they are using are not accurate. Most buildings are not straight and have certain deviations on the floors and walls. This may cause issues and additional costs when designing your property for construction. The materials for the internal parts of your building might not fit in.

Just to recap; If the plans are too ‘squared’ then it may not be wise to choose that particular surveyor for the survey as they may not measure the true angle of your property.

#4 Review everything with your architect

If you have an architect, it is best you run through the quotes in detail with your architect to ensure that what they are going to survey captures everything he needs for your planning application as well as for the construction. For example, some features such as sockets and lights are not standard features to measure in a measured building survey.

You can also ask your architect to review the scope that you have to produce to ensure that you are sending the right information to the surveyors.

To summarise, just make sure that you send as much and the same information to surveyors to get the right price. Use our Scope Sheet for Surveying to help you get started.

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What is a Plan, is this a drawing?

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A plan is a drawing; in the context of measured building survey and topographical surveys it represents the features on your property on a PDF or DWG drawing. These are used for your planning application and for your architect to produce your construction (proposed) drawings. There are several types of plans. They are:

  • Floor Plans
  • Section Plans
  • Roof Plans
  • Loft Plans
  • Elevation Plans (there are also internal and external plans, most of the requests are just external plans. The only time you need an internal plan is when you have detail artwork or ornate walls that needs to be represented on your measured building survey)
  • Topographical Plans (or also called Land Survey Plans)
  • Ceiling Plans

You should not confuse it with a site plan. A site plan is a drawing/illustration that shows your property in context to other properties. It is based on an Ordnance map and can be purchased online (for roughly £8-10; depending on the scale https://www.buyaplan.co.uk/ ). You need one for all planning application.

A site plan looks like this:

Example of a site plan

Here are some examples of the plans mentioned above:

Floor Plans

 

Floor Plan Example 1
Floor Plan Example 1

 

Floor Plan Example 2
Floor Plan Example 2

 

Floor Plan Example 3
Floor Plan Example 3

 

Section

Section Plan Example 1
Section Plan Example 1

 

Section Plan Example 2
Section Plan Example 2

 

Topographical Plan Example
Topographical Plan Example

 

Topographical planLoft Plan

Loft Plan Example
Loft Plan Example

Elevation

Elevation Plan Example
Elevation Plan Example