Planning application drawings in Titchfield

What the data says about planning in Titchfield

Fareham Borough Council granted 99% of the householder planning decisions it made in its latest published year — 12 points above the 87% England-wide householder average. Titchfield contains Catisfield, Titchfield, Titchfield Abbey conservation areas (Catisfield designated 1994), so materials, fenestration and roof form are assessed against the appraisal, which is where a policy-literate drawing pack earns its keep. Its dominant postwar (1945–1970) housing stock sets the design brief on most streets.

Class A and Class B set the thresholds — a rear dormer to 40m³ on a terrace or 50m³ on a semi or detached, and a single-storey rear extension to 3m on a terrace or 4m on a detached house — beyond which Fareham Borough Council needs a full application. Titchfield carries at least one Article 4 direction, and conservation areas including Catisfield, Titchfield and Titchfield Abbey remove those rights outright, so we confirm your exact address before a line is drawn. A validated householder application in Titchfield is determined against an 8-week statutory target.

Catisfield (conservation area designated in 1994), Titchfield (conservation area designated in 1969) and Titchfield Abbey (conservation area designated in 1994) — these are the Titchfield pockets our drawings cover most. Heritage designations here include Catisfield, Titchfield and Titchfield Abbey. Fareham Borough Council weighs each proposal against Fareham Borough Council's adopted local plan and its householder design guidance, where the 2,840 homes here are 15% 1965-1972, 13% 1955-1964, 12% 1973-1982, which is what sets the realistic roof and rear-projection options. On roofs the borough is shallow-pitched roofs and integral garages typical of that period's building and shallow gabled roofs typical of that period's building, over late-1960s and early-1970s houses (15% of 2,840 homes), late-1950s and early-1960s houses (13%) and 1970s and early-1980s houses (12%).

Designations, stock and decisions in Titchfield

Heritage designation is the single biggest variable in Titchfield, and it is address-specific: Catisfield (conservation area designated in 1994), Titchfield (conservation area designated in 1969) and Titchfield Abbey (conservation area designated in 1994). Inside those boundaries permitted development is curtailed and Fareham Borough Council assesses materials, window detail and roof form against the area's own appraisal, so a scheme that would be waved through two streets away can need a full application here.

Fareham Borough Council has 19 recorded Article 4 directions — check the address before assuming PD applies in Titchfield.

On stock, Titchfield is late-1960s and early-1970s houses (15% of 2,840 homes), late-1950s and early-1960s houses (13%) and 1970s and early-1980s houses (12%) — which is why shallow-pitched roofs and integral garages typical of that period's building and shallow gabled roofs typical of that period's building govern what a loft or rear projection can realistically be. Fareham Borough Council decided 394 householder applications in the latest published year and granted 99%, with 89% issued inside the eight-week target. We work from the council's own published record.

The full build-period split for Titchfield runs pre-1900 9% (260 homes), 1900-1918 2% (50 homes), 1919-1929 6% (160 homes), 1930-1939 3% (90 homes), 1945-1954 5% (150 homes), 1955-1964 13% (380 homes), 1965-1972 15% (430 homes), 1973-1982 12% (330 homes), 1983-1992 5% (140 homes), 1993-1999 8% (220 homes) and 2000-2008 11% (320 homes). That distribution is why pre-1900 detailing dominates the drawings here, and it is measured from council-tax records rather than assumed from the street name.

Fareham Borough Council also decides for Fareham Town, Hook-with-Warsash, Sarisbury & Whiteley and Wallington & Downend, so a decision in Titchfield sits inside a wider pattern of decisions we track across the same authority — useful when an officer cites a precedent from the next area over.

The Article 4 directions recorded for this council include 12-18 Thorney Close, Down End Farm, Hook and Hovercraft. Each removes a specific permitted-development right inside its own boundary, which is why the check is done on the address rather than on the town.

What goes in a Titchfield planning application

Whatever you are building, Fareham Borough 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. Fareham Borough Council assesses each proposal against Fareham Borough Council's adopted local plan and its householder design guidance, 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 Titchfield's stock, which runs to late-1960s and early-1970s houses (15% of 2,840 homes), late-1950s and early-1960s houses (13%) and 1970s and early-1980s houses (12%), the same scheme is drawn differently to answer the concerns officers raise here. Titchfield contains Catisfield, Titchfield, Titchfield Abbey conservation areas (Catisfield designated 1994), so materials, fenestration and roof form are assessed against the appraisal, so the pack is built to pre-empt exactly that.

Where the property sits in a conservation area — Catisfield, Titchfield and Titchfield Abbey among Titchfield's — validation is stricter still, often demanding heritage detail and sometimes additional plans. Fareham Borough Council has 19 recorded Article 4 directions — check the address before assuming PD applies in Titchfield. We confirm the designation before drawing so the pack meets the higher bar first time.