Discharge of Conditions
Submitted after permission is granted, to satisfy the conditions attached to it. Most permissions cannot be built out until these are cleared.
When
When your council will require it
- A permission carries pre-commencement conditions
- A condition requires details to be approved before a stage of work
- You need conditions formally discharged before selling or drawing down finance
Contents
What is in it
- 01The parent permission and its reference
- 02Each condition quoted verbatim and numbered as it appears on the decision notice
- 03What is submitted to satisfy each one
- 04Why the submitted detail meets the condition's stated purpose
Authority
What makes it necessary
Section 73 and section 74 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, and the conditions as drafted on your own decision notice.
Price
What it costs
This document is not priced on its own. It is part of the fixed fee for the application it supports, and a case producing three documents costs the same as a case producing one. On a householder application that fee is £499, with your council’s statutory fee passed on separately at cost.
A shorter research draft of this document is also available for credits, for your own use. It is clearly marked on every page as not for submission, and it carries nobody’s signature.
Questions
Questions
What happens if I build before discharging a pre-commencement condition?
The permission can be treated as not lawfully implemented, which in the worst case means the development is unauthorised. It is the single most expensive administrative mistake in the system.
Start here
Does your site need a discharge of conditions?
Draw a boundary and the appraisal tells you which documents your route and your constraints require, before you commit to anything.