The list below is a record of advice the Planning Inspectorate has provided in respect of the Planning Act 2008 process.
There is a statutory duty under section 51 of the Planning Act 2008 to record the advice that is given in relation to an application or a potential application and to make this publicly available. Advice we have provided is recorded below together with the name of the person or organisation who asked for the advice and the project it relates to. The privacy of any other personal information will be protected in accordance with our Information Charter which you should view before sending information to the Planning Inspectorate.
Note that after a project page has been created for a particular application, any advice provided that relates to it will also be published under the ‘s51 advice’ tab on the relevant project page.
Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived. View the archived advice.
General
Enquiry
Please could you confirm whether it is possible to submit a DCO application in outline, following by subsequent reserved matters? If so, please can you provide some further details on the process?
Advice given
A Development Consent Order (DCO) application cannot be submitted as an outline application to be followed by application(s) for reserved matters at a later date. Applicants should make every effort to finalise details applicable to the Proposed Development prior to submission of their DCO application.
The ‘Rochdale Envelope’ approach has been used for some proposals under the Planning Act 2008, where the nature of the Proposed Development means that some details of the whole project have not been confirmed (for instance the precise dimensions of structures) when the application is submitted, and flexibility is sought to address uncertainty.
The Planning Inspectorate has issued a series of Advice Notes on the DCO process which you may find useful, these include an Advice Note specifically concerning Using the Rochdale Envelope: attachment 1
DCOs may contain requirements, which are similar to conditions under the Town and Country Planning Act, which specify the matters for which detailed approval needs to be obtained before the development can be lawfully begun, for example a detailed landscaping scheme
All other Advice Notes relevant to the Planning Act 2008 can be found by following the link below:
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