Don't let ecology delay your planning application!

Whether you are looking at ....

✅ a redundant commercial building conversion, or 

✅ a new build on a piece of land

As part of your site assessment and due diligence, ALWAYS consider whether you might have to submit ecological surveys with your planning application.

Why❓  

Well, if they are required to support your planning application and NOT submitted, the Council will not register it and it will either have to be withdrawn or if you have an amiable authority they may hold your planning application in abeyance.

But.... no matter what it, can seriously delay your planning application and different species 🦇 have different survey dates when they can only be completed.

For for example.... its November and the land you are promoting may have a pond on it or within 250m you may require a Great Crested Newt Survey.... this can only be undertaken between March and June....

So your application will be seriously delayed....

Has this ever happened to your planning applications?

This too can have repercussions if you are agreeing Opinion Agreements with building or land owners that are subject to a strict time line to get planning permission.

See my handy summary guide above.

To note, this is a guide and you should always take advice from a ecologist of course, based on your site specific circumstances!