Planning Services
If you are intending to submit a new application, we would encourage you to use the Planning Portal's comprehensive online submission and payment service. Please see our website here for how to apply through the Planning Portal: http://www.southkesteven.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=8169
Applications made directly to the Council by email or post, together with cheque payments, could take much longer to process.
Services operating to normal standards:
· Planning Applications, Street Naming and Numbering, Land Charges and Planning Support will continue to be provided as normal.
· Planning Committee meetings have resumed.
· Processing Applications for temporary changes of use to allow takeaway services during COVID period.
· Coordinating requests to extend construction hours on building sites.
· Member training
· Planning Policy functions
Services operating to reduced standards:
· Submission and payment for planning applications electronically via the Planning Portal are encouraged. Email and paper applications may take longer to process.
· All planning applications are being determined but with restrictions on site visits, including visits by Members of the Planning Committee.
· The duty planner service is replaced with telephone appointments.
· Non-statutory site notices are replaced by wider neighbour notification by letter.
· Urgent enforcement complaints are being prioritised.
· Site visits for enforcement cases that were delayed due to Covid restrictions are being visited as officers work through the backlog of investigations.
· Planning Policy enquiries will be dealt with via email where possible, or telephone.
Services withdrawn until further notice:
· Placing non-statutory site notices at application sites
Extended Construction Hours
Following the announcement by the government on 13 May 2020 regarding a relaxing of working hours on construction sites to enable greater productivity following the COVID restrictions, South Kesteven supports this approach but would remind developers of the need to balance extended working hours whilst continuing to consider the impact on local residents, some of whom may be working prolonged hours as key workers in the fight against Coronavirus.
Until 30th September 2021, if your planning permission contains restrictions on construction working hours, you must make a request to our Planning Team who will consider your request in consultation with our Environmental Health Colleagues and issue a response to you before you begin to operate the extended hours. Please forward any requests to: planningenforcement@southkesteven.gov.uk .
It may also be helpful to Inform local residents, through your websites or by letter drop, of the Government's relaxation and your intended working hours. You may also want to consider offering a complaint helpline should be people feel they are being excessively disturbed. Please remember that the relaxation of working hours does not exempt enforcement action by this authority where a Statutory Nuisance has been established.
Message to Restaurants, Cafes and Drinking Establishments
Temporary Permitted Development rights allowing for the provision of moveable structures such as marquees, decks and large canopies within the grounds of the establishment cease to apply after 1st January 2022.
If your establishment has erected such a structure it must be removed immediately after this date. If you wish to retain any structures after this date, you should apply for planning permission not less than 8 weeks before the end of temporary period to allow adequate time for your application to be determined.