Planning conditions: Bins!

[Post and beam]

Before i ask the Planning department the probably painful question of what their requirement is with regard to our Bin location, does anyone have any insight please?

 

Our 'pre first occupation' condition #13 requires us to submit full details of how and where we will locate our bins & recycling containers. We have already moved in by the way.

 

My response would be,  ' over there mate out of the way'.

 

I doubt this is what they want. For those that have been here, what level of detail are they likely to be expecting?

 

 

[Bonner]

13 minutes ago, Post and beam said:

My response would be,  ' over there mate out of the way'.

Just show that on a drawing. I don’t know any specific requirements, maybe they vary between each LA. As long as they are not blocking any access or parking provisions, double they are interested in what they look like considering they keep giving us more of them.

[DownSouth]

We just showed ours on our site drawing. Ashford BC has loads of info online about where it should be placed to not affect street scape/ be detrimental to the appearance of your own house. ABC advice is to be no more than 15m from collection point - but we have a long muddy farm track up to our bin store by the garage so it’ll be a bit of a trek taking the bins out. We went overboard, added a bike store and clad it in the same corrugated steel so it fits in…

 

On discharging conditions, hope you’ve seen the advice to do as many as possible together if your council charges for each application? 

[ProDave]

For planners to make such a mountain out of the "where do I put my bins" question is ridiculous.

 

Mine are by the back door, so I can easily put rubbish out into them.  Then the night before bin day (because our bin collection is usually very early) I take whichever bin is due to be emptied round to the front and stand it on the edge of the driveway next to the road edge.

 

Somehow I suspect putting that is my bin proposal would upset somebody.  So you need to find out what they want and tell them that, then carry on doing what works for you regardless of what nonsense they want.

[Iceverge]

I feel a 40 page bin location design statement AI written coming on. 

 

Either that or go on the planning portal and copy and paste someone else's. 

[saveasteading]

4 hours ago, Post and beam said:

My response would be,  ' over there mate out of the way'.

Yes that but spread over 2 pages. Plan, show that it's accessible and not inconveniencing anyone. That's what they want to know.

 

The objectives are to get rubbish away. So how do you fill it on a wet Tuesday night. How do you get it roadside and how do you stop it ending up in the road etc.

If you haven't a solution then you need to find one. If you have, present it.

[Cheesus]

Welcome to my world! 

 

 

 

[Post and beam]

Update: 

I did finally get around to addressing this condition. I asked AI to provide some information. Fek!  It gave me a very specific 6 section Template to fill in that is tailored exactly to the East Herts requirements. Told me what to write, where, and how to fill the forms in.

I cannot believe the Planning departments level of detail required but i am even more disbelieving of the level of what AI can & did give me. Very impressed.

[Tony L]

Yes, AI is a lot better than it was a couple of years ago.  It's the reason I've been posting less on BH, recently - I've been using Gemini.  I don't trust the answers as much as when I hear from the BH experts, but I can get an instant answer & it's helpful to have a conversation in real time, rather than have to wait for each response.

[Mr Punter]

I must say that if it means application details are easier to complete to LA satisfaction then the AI approach sounds like a win all round.