Common application types
The validation requirements for each application-type can be found by selecting the following:
- Householder planning application
- Full planning application
- Outline planning application
- Reserved matters application
- Listed building consent application
- Variation or deletion of condition application
- Non-material amendment application
- Certificate of lawfulness application
- Permission in principle application
- Prior approval
- Advertisement applications
- Discharge of condition application
Definitions
Major applications:
For residential development it means where 10 or more homes will be provided, or the site has an area of 0.5 hectares or more. For non-residential development it means additional floorspace of 1,000 square meters or more, or a site of 1 hectare or more, or as otherwise set out in the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015.
Main town centre uses:
- Retail development including warehouse clubs and factory outlet centres
- leisure, entertainment and more intensive sport and recreation uses including cinemas, restaurants, drive-through restaurants, bars and pubs, nightclubs, casinos, health and fitness centres, indoor bowling centres and bingo halls
- offices
- arts, culture and tourism development including theatres, museums, galleries and concert halls, hotels and conference facilities
Open space:
As defined in the Cheltenham Plan 2020 (Para. 17.20):
- parks and gardens
- natural and semi-natural greenspaces
- amenity greenspace
- provision for children and young people
- allotments
- cemeteries
- disused churchyards or other burial grounds
- civic spaces including market squares and other hard-surfaced areas designed for pedestrians
Strategic sites:
Application sites falling within (in full or in part) those strategic allocations specified in Part 6 of the Joint Core Strategy, in particular those listed in Table SA1.