Planning guidance
Details of our planning documents and advice notes
Cycle and Car Parking in New Development
- Cycle and Car Parking Standards in New Development Supplementary Planning Document (adopted 7 December 2023)
- Cycle and Car Parking Supplementary Planning Document Adoption Statement
- Cycle and Car Parking Supplementary Planning Document Consultation Statement
- SEA and HRA Screening Determination - Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Habitat Regulations Assessment (HRA) Screening Determination
Viability
- Viability Appraisals for New Development Supplementary Planning Document (adopted 2 November 2023)
- Viability Adoption Statement
- Viability Consultation Statement
- Viability Strategic Environmental Assessment and Habitat Regulations Assessment Screening Determination
Affordable housing
- First homes interim planning policy statement
- Hart District Council affordable housing informal development guidance
Biodiversity
Thames Basin Heath special protection area
- Thames Basin Heath special protection area delivery framework 2009
- Also see policy NBE3 Thames Basin Heaths special protection area (SPA) and the supporting text in the adopted Hart Local Plan 2032.
- Areas in Hart district affected by the SPA (map)
- Suitable alternative natural greenspace (SANG) map and capacity at October 2022 - published November 2022
- SANG tariff 2024/2025
- Tariff for strategic access management and monitoring (SAMM) from 1 April 2024
- Council owned/controlled SANG allocation criteria agreed by cabinet on 1 October 2020 and updated November 2022. This sets out the criteria against which we will consider an allocation of council-owned/controlled SANG capacity. We will not give priority for the allocation of council-administered or managed SANG to any development that does not meet the above allocations policy. Please email all SANG requests to sang@hart.gov.uk.
- Guidelines for creation of SANG – August 2021
- Natural England SAMM Tariff Guidance 2011
Other guidance
Please contact us if you need any of the following reports in a different format.
- The Community Infrastructure Policy sets out our requirements for new development. This is usually secured through S106 planning obligations, often in the form of financial contributions.
- We set out details of the amounts received from contributions from S106 planning obligations in our developer contributions page
- Basingstoke Canal catchment map
- Colt Hill Wharf Clubhouse, Odiham catchment map
- Edenbrook Country Park, Hitches Lane catchment map
- Developers' contributions towards children's services facilities
- Fleet Pond catchment map
- Frogmore Leisure Centre, Yateley, catchment map
- Hart leisure strategy
- Hartley Wintney commons catchment map
- Hazeley Heath, Hartley Wintney, catchment map
- Illuminated advertisements
- Odiham Common catchment map
- Odiham village design statement
- Planning technical advice note - privacy, daylight and sunlight: the 45 and 25 degree guideline
- Transport contributions policy
- Yateley village design framework supplementary planning document