Basements Review: Submission

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Basements Submission Planning Policy

The Council submitted its draft policy on basement development to the Secretary of State for examination on 29 April 2014.

Responses on the publication consultation of February/March 2014 can be found below:

• Self-entered online responses
• Responses received by email and post commenting on soundness
• Long responses 
• Responses that do not comment on soundness 
• Late responses 

In addition to the responses above, the following documents were submitted by the Council:

Document Ref	Name
	Basements Submission Planning Policy April 2014
	Covering Letter to Planning Inspectorate
	Index of Basements Submission Documents
BAS 01	Basements Submission Planning Policy - April 2014
BAS 02	Statement of Consultation Reg 22 (c)
BAS 03	Summary of Consultation
BAS 04	Council's Response to Publication Consultation
BAS 04/01	Addendum to BAS 04 Council's Response to Publication Consultation
BAS 05	Council's Responses to Cranbrook Basements, RBKC, April 2014 (cover only)
BAS 05/01	Council's Response - Index of Documents Submitted by Cranbrook Basements
BAS 05/02	Council’s Response to Cranbrook Basements’ Submission on Law and Policy by Timothy Comyn, RBKC, Feb 2014
BAS 05/03	Council’s Response to ‐ Proposed Planning Policy CL7, Comments by Cranbrook Basements (March 2014), RBKC, April 2014
BAS 05/04	Council’s Response to Cranbrook Basements Document 62 by Bell Cornwell, RBKC, April 2014
BAS 05/05	Council’s Response to Representations submitted on behalf of Cranbrook Basements on Planning Matters by Bell Cornwell LLP (July 2013 Responses), RBKC, April 2014
BAS 05/06	Council’s Response to Cranbrook  Basements  –  Executive Summary, Comments on Basements Publication Planning Policy – Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, April 2014
BAS 05/07	Council’s response (Environmental Health Department) to Noise and Nuisance Issues raised in Cranbrook Basements (Documents 53 and 54) Representation, RBKC, April 2014
BAS 05/08	Council’s Response to Cranbrook Basements comments related to Listed Buildings, RBKC, April 2014
BAS 05/09	Council’s Response to Cranbrook Basements Document 60 by Jeffery W George and Associates, RBKC, April 2014
BAS 05/10	Council’s Response to Cranbrook Basements’ Documents 37, 39 and 48 on Visual Evidence, RBKC, April 2014
BAS 05/11	Response to consultation responses for “The potential impact of basement excavation on biodiversity: a paper for the RBKC Planning Department, 2014” by Kelly Gunnell, Ecology Service Manager, RBKC
BAS 05/12	RBKC Basements Response to Consultation Comments Prepared for RBKC by Alan Baxter and Associates, April 2014
BAS 05/13	Council's Response - Technical Review RBKC – Basements Policy Public Consultation Response, Waterman Energy Report prepared by Eight Associates, April 2014
BAS 05/14	Council’s Response to Arboricultural Issues raised by Cranbrook Basements and Basement Force, RBKC, April 2014
BAS 05/15	Council’s Response to Arboricultural Issues raised by Cranbrook Basements and Basement Force in the July/September 2013 Publication Consultation, RBKC, April 2014
BAS 06	Council's Response to Basement Force
BAS 06/01	Council's Response - Index of Documents Submitted by Basement Force
BAS 06/02	Council's Response to Basement Force (Main Document)
BAS 06/03	Council's Response - Operational Carbon report submitted by Ashmount Consulting prepared for the Council by Eight Associates, April 2014
BAS 06/04	Council’s response (Environmental Health Department) to Noise and Nuisance Issues raised in Basement Force Representation, RBKC, April 2014
BAS 07	Council's Response - Other Large Responses, RBKC, April 2014
BAS 08	PAS Test of Soundness Toolkit, RBKC, April 2014
BAS 09	PAS Legal Compliance Toolkit, RBKC, April 2014
BAS 10	Monitoring Indicators, RBKC, April 2014
BAS 11	Report to Full Council, RBKC
BAS 12	Copies of all Representations (see above)
BAS 13	Copies of letters sent out advertising Publication
	Basements Publication Planning Policy Feb/Mar 2014
BAS 14	Basements Publication Planning Policy (Feb 2014)
BAS 15	Consultation Response Form
BAS 16	Guide to Making Representations
BAS 17	Statement of Representation Procedures
BAS 18	Policy Formulation Report, Feb 2014
BAS 19	Statement of Consultation (Reg 17), Feb 2014
BAS 20	Summary of Consultation, Feb 2014
BAS 21	Sustainability Appraisal (SA/SEA), Feb 2014
BAS 22	Habitats Directive Screening Assessment, Feb 2014
BAS 23	Equalities Impact Assessment
BAS 24	Monitoring Report, 2013 (Extract Chapter 2)
BAS 25	Population and Household Density, Feb 2014
BAS 26	Background Report 01 (Urban Design Strategy), Urban Initiatives, Jul 2006
BAS 27	Basements Development Data, Feb 2014
BAS 28	Case Studies of Basement Excavation, Alan Baxter and Associates, Jan 2014
BAS 29	Basement Works - Impact on Residents, Feb 2014
BAS 30	Document Alan Baxter Associates Basements Report (Mar 2013) PDF, 4.51 MB, 103 pages
BAS 31	London Terrace Houses 1660 - 1860, English Heritage, 1996
BAS 32	Basements in Gardens of Listed Buildings, Alan Baxter and Associates, Feb 2014
BAS 33	Document Basements Visual Evidence, Feb 2014 PDF, 23.27 MB, 88 pages
BAS 34	Basements Visual Evidence - External Manifestations, Feb 2014
BAS 35	Trees and Basements, Feb 2014
BAS 36	Impact of Basement Development on Biodiversity, Feb 2014
BAS 37	London: Garden City?, 1998 - 2008, London Wildlife Trust, 2011
BAS 38	Life Cycle Carbon Analysis, Eight Associates, Feb 2014 (Duplicate of one published in July 2013)
BAS 39	Evidence Base for Basements and Policy CE1: Climate Change, Eight Associates
BAS 40	Carbon Offsetting, Feb 2014
	Basements Publication Planning Policy Jul/Sep 2013
BAS 41	Basements Publication Policy
BAS 42	Guide to making representations
BAS 43	Publication Consultation Response Form
BAS 44	Statement of Representation Procedures
BAS 45	Sustainability Appraisal (SA/SEA)
BAS 46	Core Strategy Screening Assessment
BAS 47	Consultation Responses on Second Draft Basements Policy
BAS 48	Equalities Impact Assessment
BAS 49	Evidence Base for Basements and Policy CE1: Climate Change, Eight Associates
	Basements Second Draft Policy
BAS 50	Basements Second Draft Policy
BAS 51	Consultation Response Form
BAS 52	Sustainability Appraisal (SEA/SA)
BAS 53	Consultation Responses to Draft Basements Policy
	Basements Draft Policy
BAS 54	Basements Review Draft Paper
BAS 55	Sustainability Appraisal (SEA/SA) Draft Policy
BAS 56	Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA)
BAS 57	Alan Baxter Associates Basement Report (Dec 2012)
	Basements Issues Consultation
BAS 58	Basement Development Issues Paper
BAS 59	Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report
BAS 60	Workshop summary
BAS 61	Summary of issues consultation
	Basements Surveys
BAS 62	Response to neighbours survey
BAS 63	Response to residents associations survey
BAS 64	Response to owners survey
	Draft Policy Consultation Events
BAS 65	Summary of comments for event 1
BAS 66	Summary of comments for event 2
	Second Draft Policy Q & A Session
BAS 67	Basements Second Draft Policy Q & A Session
	Basements Working Group Documents
BAS 68	Terms of Reference
BAS 69	Basements Working Group Meeting Minutes
	Additional minutes and notes provided by members of the group Cranbrook Basements
BAS 70	Response to minutes email
BAS 71	Minutes
BAS 72	Definition of Larger Site
BAS 73	Typical Large Site Area
	Basement Force
BAS 74	Email exchange
BAS 75	Meeting notes feedback
BAS 76	Comments
BAS 77	Tree and landscape emails
BAS 78	Bloomsbury Square gardens
BAS 79	Hyde Park car park pictures
BAS 80	Cavendish Square gardens
BAS 81	Bedford Gardens renders
BAS 82	Bedford Gardens planting
BAS 83	Bedford Gardens picture
	Norland Society
BAS 84	Notes of minutes
	Kensington Society
BAS 85	Tree advice
BAS 86	Suggestion for what is large
	Sustainability email exchange
BAS 87	Abba Energy
BAS 88	Michael Bach
BAS 89	Michael Bach-Terence Bendixson-Clive Wilson
	Other correspondence
BAS 90	RBKC email
BAS 91	Dr Thompson's email
BAS 92	Marina Murray's email
	Other relevant documents
BAS 93	Subterranean Development SPD
BAS 94	Securing the Future
BAS 95	Draft Sustainable Design and Construction SPG July 2013 Sustainable Design and Construction SPG April 2014
BAS 96	Responses from Specific Consultees, July 2013 Publication
BAS 97	Copies of Late Representations (see above)

Common Submission Documents: These documents are relevant to the submitted policies on Basements, Conservation and Design and Miscellaneous Matters.

Post-submission the Council has notified general and specific consultation bodies (by letter and email) that the policy has been submitted. The Council has also produced the statement required by Regulation 22 (3) (a) (iv).