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🌍 Environmental Intelligence

Energy statements, sustainability, drainage strategy, fire safety, water efficiency, and waste management.

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Use these tools when preparing technical reports and compliance documentation. Many of these are validation requirements — submit without them and your application will be returned. Use the Validation Pre-Flight tool to check which ones you actually need.
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Energy Statement

Energy hierarchy assessment (Be Lean/Clean/Green/Seen) — Part L 2021 compliance, CO₂ reduction calculations, EPC estimates, and renewable energy sizing.

When to use: Required for major applications in most authorities. Also needed where local plan policies set carbon reduction targets beyond Building Regulations.
📜 Building Regs Part L 2021, Local Plan energy policies
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Sustainability

NPPF/BREEAM-aligned sustainability scoring — energy, water, materials, ecology, transport, and climate resilience across six categories.

When to use: Use when your LPA requires a Sustainability Statement or BREEAM assessment. Also useful for demonstrating sustainability credentials in your planning statement.
📜 NPPF Section 14, BREEAM, Local Plan sustainability policies
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Drainage Strategy

Surface water drainage strategy — SuDS hierarchy compliance, greenfield discharge rate targeting, attenuation volume calculation, and CIRIA C753 methodology.

When to use: Required for most developments that increase impermeable area. LLFA consultation is mandatory for major applications. SuDS are expected unless demonstrated impractical.
📜 NPPF Paragraph 169, CIRIA C753, LLFA requirements
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Fire Safety

Building Safety Act 2022 Gateway One screening — relevant building assessment, single staircase rules, cladding risk, sprinkler requirements, and HSE consultation triggers.

When to use: Required for residential buildings 18m+ (7+ storeys). Gateway One is a planning-stage requirement — you cannot submit without the fire statement.
📜 Building Safety Act 2022, Planning Gateway One
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Water Efficiency

Part G Building Regulations water efficiency — fittings specification, litres per person per day calculation, Optional Requirement (110 l/p/d), and BREEAM water credits.

When to use: Use when your LPA has adopted the Optional Requirement for water efficiency (110 l/p/d instead of 125 l/p/d). Check your local plan.
📜 Building Regs Part G, Local Plan water policies
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Waste Management

Site Waste Management Plan builder — waste volume estimation, recycling targets, carrier requirements, demolition waste protocols, and SWMP compliance.

When to use: Use for developments involving demolition or significant construction waste. Some LPAs require a SWMP as a validation requirement.
📜 Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011
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Overheating

Part O overheating compliance — CIBSE TM52/TM59 methodology, solar gain analysis, ventilation strategy, shading requirements, and dynamic thermal modelling triggers.

When to use: Required for all new residential buildings since June 2022. Part O sets maximum internal temperatures and requires specific design responses.
📜 Building Regs Part O, CIBSE TM52/TM59
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Odour Impact

IAQM odour screening — source-pathway-receptor analysis, separation distances, and sensitivity of proposed or surrounding uses.

When to use: Use where the site is near a sewage works, food production, agriculture or waste facility, or where you are introducing odour-sensitive uses near an existing source.
📜 IAQM Odour Guidance 2018, NPPF Paragraph 191
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Vibration

BS 6472 / BS 5228 vibration screening — ground-borne vibration from railways, industry and construction, with human comfort thresholds.

When to use: Use for sites near railways, industrial plant or busy roads, or where piling and demolition are proposed close to neighbours.
📜 BS 6472-1:2008, BS 5228-2:2009
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Wind & Microclimate

Lawson comfort criteria screening — pedestrian wind comfort and safety, downdraught and wind-tunnelling risk around taller or exposed buildings.

When to use: Use for tall buildings or schemes whose massing could create uncomfortable or unsafe wind conditions at ground level.
📜 Lawson Comfort Criteria, City of London Wind Microclimate Guidelines
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External Lighting

ILP GN01 obtrusive light screening — environmental zones, light spill, glare and sky-glow on residents and ecology.

When to use: Use for external, floodlighting or sports lighting, or sites near sensitive receptors, dark-sky areas or bat roosts.
📜 ILP GN01:2021, NPPF Paragraph 191(c)
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Basement Impact

Basement Impact Assessment screening — hydrogeology, ground stability, structural and flood considerations for subterranean development.

When to use: Use for basement excavation or extension, especially in London boroughs that operate a basement development SPD.
📜 Local Basement SPDs, NPPF Paragraph 192
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Minerals & Waste Safeguarding

Mineral Safeguarding Area and waste-site safeguarding screening, including prior-extraction considerations.

When to use: Use where the site falls within an MSA or near safeguarded waste infrastructure — check the Minerals & Waste Local Plan.
📜 NPPF Paragraph 217, Minerals & Waste Local Plan
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Utilities Capacity

Water, sewerage, electricity, gas and telecoms capacity screening, with provider consultation triggers.

When to use: Use for major development or where local infrastructure may be at or near capacity.
📜 NPPF Section 9, Water Industry Act 1991
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Construction Logistics

Construction Logistics / Management Plan builder — vehicle routing, wheel washing, working hours, deliveries and neighbour amenity protection.

When to use: Often a pre-commencement condition. Prepare for major schemes or constrained urban sites.
📜 Local CLP/CMP guidance, NPPF Paragraph 191
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Telecoms Prior Approval

GPDO Part 16 prior-approval screening for masts and apparatus — siting and appearance test and consultation triggers.

When to use: Use for telecoms masts, antennas or equipment cabinets proposed under permitted development.
📜 GPDO 2015 Part 16, NPPF Section 10
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