Planning commencements should be being monitored - by planning and building control departments.
The reason for monitoring is financial. Section 106 and/or Community Infrastructure Levy payments due to the local authority are often triggered on commencement.
Close CLO liaison with planning case officers and between different local authority departments is possible to ensure that reports are secured in a timely manner. All a CLO often needs to do is give the principal environmental consultant a call and advise awareness of upcoming commencement or start on site and what information is expected/outstanding.
Clients can sometimes 'forget' to procure services at particular crucial stages and to be fair, environmental consultants do not always make it clear in planning terms what work is required and when.
Kind regards
Ruth
Ruth Willcox
Planning Officer
Strategic Planning and Infrastructure
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From: Contaminated Land Management Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Phil Mason
Sent: 11 September 2018 09:49
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Subject: Re: Pre-commencement Changes 1st October
Hi
Plenty of developers already treat prior to commencement conditions as prior to occupation. Always an interesting discussion when they submit a phase 2, remediation strategy and validation report in one hit. Especially when they have "forgotten" to undertake a proper validation of gas protection measures.
Considering the developers pay good money for competent consultants to write good reports and produce excellent remediation strategies, it staggers me how often the developer neglects to actually read their own report, never min implement the recommended remediation strategy.
Pre-commencement conditions requiring (for example) approval of a site investigation and agree a remediation strategy are, in my view often necessary to ensure that the developer sets off in the right direction. As stated below, the developer often cannot do more than a desktop study at the application stage because SI is just not logistically possible.
If they are in the position to be able to do the SI and produce a remediation strategy at the application stage then great, I would personally just condition the validation works (prior to occupation).
It'll be interesting to see how different planning authorities approach this.
Phil Mason MSc, MIEnvSc, MCIEH, AMIOA
Environmental Consultant (Air Quality, Noise, Contaminated Land) – Infrastructure
Urban Vision Partnership Ltd
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