Planning application validation checklists and guidance

Validation guidance and checklists

In line with Government advice, the Council has produced guidance on the validation of planning applications and validation checklists for each type of application. You can view the guide and checklists by following the link below:

• Guide to the validation of planning applications and validation checklists (new window PDF 413KB).

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The validation checklists include mandatory national requirements and additional local authority requirements. The requirements detailed in the checklists apply to applications submitted from 6 April 2008.

Supplementary Planning Guidance

Follow this link view or download Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) documents.

Other guidance

Suffolk Environmental Protection Group advice notes

• Advice note 1 (new window PDF 87KB) - Guidance notes for developments on land which is potentially contaminated or where the proposed end use is sensitive.
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• Advice note 2 (new window PDF 57KB) - Technical guidance for investigating, assessing and remediating land contamination.
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• Advice note 3 (new window PDF 42KB) - Environmental Protection Act 1990 Part IIA - contaminated land regime.
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• Advice note 4 (new window PDF 31KB) - Environmental Protection Act 1990 Part IIA -  apportioning liability for contaminated land.

Protection of trees and landscape specifications for development sites

• Guidance Note 1 (new window PDF 168KB) - Protection of trees on development sites.
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• Guidance Note 2 (new window PDF 146KB) - Landscape specifications for development sites.

Suffolk Biodiversity Partnership - guidance on local requirements for biodiversity and geodiversity

• Local requirements for protected species (new window PDF 70KB) - criteria and indicative thresholds for when a survey and assessment is required.
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• Local requirements for designated sites and priority habitats (new window PDF 45KB) - criteria for when a survey and assessment is required.
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• Local requirements for designated geodiversity sites and features (new window PDF 43KB) - criteria for when a survey and assessment is required.
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• Ecological survey seasons (new window (PDF 142KB).

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