Planning Permission Tips UK - Landscaping Schemes - Do They Add Value-Is It The Chicken Or The Egg?
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Article by: Martin Meaks Have you noticed how everything looks great at the moment - in the garden , Cheap Pond Liners and parks I mean. Everything seems in bloom, full of colour , Attract Butterflies To Your Garden! and life. This is a great time of year for biking as well but that's another story. Can you remember last years new development along your street that now seems a little more integrated into the landscape , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 2) Plant Needs or street scene? Planting....Its all about planting and using plants , Henry Doubleday Research Association and trees , Flowering Cherries to soften new buildings , Your Cottage Garden into their environment. , Your Cottage Garden In the seventies and eighties this was a very low priority for residential development schemes & even today, poorly landscaped developments look just that unless their new owners have had a sympathetic hand. Landscaping normally falls , Gardening - Keeping Containers Looking Good into two distinct categories - hard and soft. The hard stuff is the walling, paving, steps and edges for example and the soft is the planting from mixed shrubs , An Autumn Garden for Halloween to exotic trees. , Flowering Cherries It is the interrelationship between these two elements that can often make or break a scheme especially at the Planning application stage. You see most Planning Authorities are now wising up to how important this aspect of urban design , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 2) Plant Needs is & how it can have an effect on people's future living and environment. , Patio Canopies: Protecting Your Patio From The Elements Look though any councils empire list of departments (Planners are the worst for this) and you are guaranteed to find terms like 'urban design , Ants! - 1,000,000,000,000,000 Invaders! team' for example. The old terms of parks & trees , Favorite Tea Herbs to Grow department has now virtually disappeared with all this new rebranding jargon from the States...somebody please tell me how on earth , Understanding Soil Nutrients we let the good ol'e 'personnel dept' be reinvented for 'human resources'? New fangled 'management speak' has a lot to answer for in my opinion. Anyway, these newly invented departments are now having greater influence on what is finally approved so don't treat them lightly. Some are even teamed up with the local , Your Cottage Garden crime prevention who also advice , How to Build a Waterfall For Your Garden Pond on the best type of spiky bush to grow , How to Build a Waterfall For Your Garden Pond under windows , Silk Palm Trees to prevent Mr. swag from entering your property. , Add Color and Fragrance to Your Garden with the Korean Spice Viburnum As a guide, most residential extension schemes may not require any additional planting or landscaping , Gardening - Keeping Containers Looking Good to be indicated on the scheme plans , Container GardeningTips to ensure approval unless you have a potentially dominant or overbearing wall , How to Select a Really Good Water Hose due to the ground slope for example that would have its impact reduced & softened by some clever planting or adjustment to the surrounding ground levels. Speculative residential development will most certainly benefit from a bit of thought put into a separate landscaping , Your Cottage Garden scheme at the Planning application stage - it also helps the drawings to look very 'pretty' as well. The degree of detail will vary from council to council & from scheme to scheme. Fortunately, most Planners will accept an 'illustrative' scheme without too mucrel="nofollow" hreference to exact species or surface materials as this can be reserved or conditioned for later approval. However, many will indicate that you may wish to engage further supplementary experts to get involved such as 'landscape architects' even for an outline application but this really isn't necessary unless the scheme is in a very sensitive landscaped area. Once you have your planning permission it doesn't seem that hard to part with some extra money for these extra 'expert?' fees but until then just try & indicate what you feel looks nice & will enhance the drawings with the aim of softening the building , Your Cottage Garden into the natural , Composting - aka: The Circle of Life! environment. Often, many councils will actually work with you & make suggestions for landscaping , Gardening on a Budget especially if you are Joe public rather than an Agent. For us Design , Attracting Birds to the Garden Agents it can be very frustrating having to consider Planting at an early stage of the design , Abatement and Confronting Legitimate Issues especially if the scheme is speculative and who wants to spend time & money deciding what trees , The Flower Drying Game - Part 2: Sand or Glycerin? to plant , Cheap Pond Liners for a site when there are far more important 'first principal' design , Spruce Budworm issues to consider such as siting, scale, roof , Outdoor Wood Furniture – Check the Wood Species Before Purchasing lines, window , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 2) Plant Needs orientation and distances etc. of the main building. , The Basics of Plant Growth; (Part 3) Root Formation in Cuttings In my opinion, Landscaping , Industrial Blowers is very much the 'chicken' for most developments when the 'egg' is to get right the basic design , The Flower Drying Game - Part 3: An Affordable Home Flower-Press of of the built structure first. Most councils urban design , How to Select a Really Good Water Hose teams with their new army 'jobsworth' strips on their shoulders from the rebranding exercise from the Parks Dept. would see things differently and this is to be expected. So if you encounter this with your scheme do not be resistant and try to include for such hard and soft landscaping , Lap Pools – Great Exercise Inside Or Any Size Backyard elements where you can otherwise the scheme may not be supported by the Councils Planning Officer.  http://www.planning-approval.co.uk |
  
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