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:

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
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
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).

Last updated: 7 November 2022