Planning maps UK – making building easy

Ever heard of planning maps UK? They are a mandatory requirement for any British building project: whether it’s a new building, a conversion or an extension to an existing property. In every case where a building project will introduce something into the landscape or environment of town or country, a planning map is required: and in every project where a significant alteration to the purpose or use of a building is to be made, a planning map is needed as well. Effectively: any build that needs planning permission needs planning maps, or it can’t go ahead.
Building without planning maps UK, where they are required, can result in heavy fines, criminal records and demolition – a total damage costing hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of pounds. Because loss is calculated according to money not made as well as money actually lost, any project stopped or demolished because of a lack of planning mapping takes a hit for the money it didn’t make doing something else instead, as well as the money that vanishes in fines and lost revenue from an empty building. And all for the lack of a couple of bits of paper – one showing the building site itself, and one showing the site in relation to its surrounding area.
There are two kinds of planning maps UK. The site plan shows the actual site of a building project in one of two specified scales (there are different stipulations for acceptable scales according to different local authorities: two for site plans and two for plans of the surrounding area. It’s important to find out what a given local authority needs in scale terms before starting planning maps). The location plan, which shows the location of the site against its wider surroundings, is used to determine what visual and practical effects a proposed building or project will have on the life and landscape of a community or particular area.
Planning maps UK is a lot easier to get hold of than they used to be. Back in the day, a person who needed planning maps was forced to apply through the planning permission authorities – a practice inevitably resulting in acres of red tape and a ridiculously drawn out approval process that held up projects as a matter of course. Now, people and companies engaged in building projects can simply apply to specific Internet sites (including Get Mapping’s UK based Planning Required site) for the maps they need – cutting through all those miles of tape and months of waiting. Internet sites capable of delivering planning maps UK are pre programmed with the necessary scales – meaning that all maps sourced through them are automatically generated to the approved scale for the planning authority in question. There’s nothing more frustrating than doing everything right and doing everything wrong – which of course is what used to happen, when a person would generate his or her own planning maps only to discover that the planning authority in question required the other scales. Using the Internet to generate guaranteed maps saves time, money and effort on all sides.

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