Help - Camden's Construction Management Plan!!!

[Buzzfan]

Hi all, great to find this selfbuild forum after eBuild's demise & congratulations to those who started it. Are there any other self-builders here in Camden, London? 

 

By way of intro, I'm trying to add a roof extension to a building in Camden London, and am bogged down with the need for Camden Council for approve my "Construction Management Plan" - for any who don't know what this is, it's a heavily documented system for controlling every aspect of the build - a system thats probably normal when building a major office block, school etc but seems way overkill for a modest urban extension.

 

I'll post separately in more detail about the problem in the relevant section on this forum, but in a nutshell, today I'm looking for affordable consultants to help me on the sections relating to 'Construction Noise, Dust & Vibration (Monitoring & Mitigation Measures)" and also "Training all Site Staff to BS 5228;2009"  

[Onoff]

A mate has recently completed a whole house renovation (his own) that I think came under Camden. Most of his problems were with initial planning. I'll ask who he used.

[MikeSharp01]

Welcome, not sure you need a consultant just a sound, thought through, management plan, did some building in Greenwich and we worked out the plan with the D&B contractors although they had their own way of dealing with BS5228 because some of their ways of doing things had price implications for us. If you are in Camden you can pop down to the British Library and go through a copy of the standard / code of practice there and make your plans. All planning applications needing one will have to put them on the planning portal so you can find loads of examples. Here is a plan I found: https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/idoxWAM/doc/Other-1406075.pdf?extension=.pdf&id=1406075&location=volume2&contentType=application/pdf&pageCount=1

[Ferdinand]

One of the skills you will need is how to meet onerous conditions easily, and how to demonstrate that you can meet it to the Council without being too heavily detailed as to the implementation.

 

Otherwise you could find yourself pulled up because you have specified a detail when your actual solution is just as good but not what you said. They may accept a gentle circumlocution which reduces to "this condition will be met if the circumstances occur". You need to keep your autonomy and build a cage for yourself.

 

There are a few examples around. For example @JSHarris met the wheel washing facilities condition on a one house build in a country lane by putting a term for delivery drivers to check that their wheels were clean.

 

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 Oz07 wrote on 4th August 2013:

Where’s those wheel cleansing facilities you promised!?

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 Jsharris wrote on 4th August 2013:

Ahhh, that’s where you need to check to see what I actually promised!

The planners wanted me to “provide details of a scheme for washing of construction lorries’ wheels on leaving the site…..”. BUT, what I offered to do (and what was accepted by the planners as fulfilment of the condition) was:

“Before any vehicle leaves the site it shall be checked for mud and spoil on the tyres and if required the tyres will be cleaned using a brush, jet wash or other suitable means………….”

More detail in the blog entry here:

http://www.mayfly.eu/uncategorized/part-ten-out-of-the-ground/

Ferdinand