What goes in a Allesley planning application
Whatever you are building, Coventry City Council decides it from the same core set. A location plan at 1:1250 fixes the site on the map with the red-line boundary; a block plan at 1:500 shows the property in its plot; then existing and proposed floor plans and elevations at 1:100 or 1:50 show the house as it is and as it will be. Larger schemes add a section and, where policy requires, a design and access statement. Miss one and the application is returned invalid before an officer has looked at it.
The drawings are also the argument. Coventry City Council assesses each proposal against the Coventry Local Plan (2017), and the elevations are where the case is won or lost — ridge and eaves heights, window positions, materials and how the change reads from the street. On Allesley's stock, which runs to historic village cottages and farmhouses, 1930s interwar semi-detached houses and post-war and later suburban detached homes, the same scheme is drawn differently to answer the concerns officers raise here. The Coundon Wedge green belt around the village strictly limits new building and larger replacement dwellings on the rural edge, so the pack is built to pre-empt exactly that.
Where the property sits in a conservation area — Allesley Village and Brownshill Green among Allesley's — validation is stricter still, often demanding heritage detail and sometimes additional plans. Allesley (Bablake ward) sits outside the wards named in Coventry's citywide HMO Article 4 direction, so the usual householder permitted-development rights still apply — though works within the Allesley Village and Brownshill Green conservation areas remain controlled. We confirm the designation before drawing so the pack meets the higher bar first time.
