Pre-application advice
and charging
You are encouraged to discuss your
application with a planning officer before making an
application.
This is particularly important for large and more complex
schemes. Officers will identify the information and details that
should be submitted with the application during these
discussions.
There is a charging system for pre-application advice on medium,
larger and more complex cases. The council offers
free advice for other domestic and small-scale
applications.
To arrange a pre-application discussion, email
duty.officer@newham.gov.uk
or phone 020 3373 8300.
Why pre-application discussion?
The Planning Services welcome and encourage discussions before a
developer submits an application. Early discussions between
developers and planning officers will provide the opportunity to
steer projects in the right direction.
They can be of great benefit to the applicant by identifying the
key planning issues, avoiding abortive work and speeding up the
statutory process.
A more formalised approach to pre-application advice will raise the
quality of developments by:
- Identifying the issues pre-formal application submission
- Lead to certainty, clarity and quicker decisions
- Save on time and money by reducing wasted resources on
unsuccessful applications and changes to formal application after
submission; thus meeting PI targets
- Allow the heads of terms for planning obligations (s106) to be
identified at an early stage including an early commitment to
drafting the legal agreement in parallel to the application
- Lead to more applications being received as valid and include
all appropriate documentation
- Reduce the number of applications that are rejected or
withdrawn and discourage fundamentally unacceptable schemes
- Secure satisfaction within the process
Full details can be found on the
Charging for pre application advice guidance
notes (pdf).
If your site is located within the ODA boundary then please refer
to the pre-application guidance notes for sites within
the ODA (pdf) area.
If your site is located with the LTGDC boundary then please refer
to the pre-application guidance notes for sites with
the LTGDC boundary (pdf).