BD16 PROJECT PREPARATION BRIEF
Planning a Bingley or Cottingley extension across changing levels

Prepared by ATR Developments Limited. You can use this with your designer or builder.
These are preparation prompts, not a property survey or a permissions decision.

Project address: ______________________________
Proposed work: ________________________________
Intended use / occupation: ____________________

For a property in Bingley, Cottingley, Eldwick or Harden, a level survey helps distinguish the appearance of the garden from the work needed to build on it. An addition may affect retaining structures, access and drainage beyond its own walls. Include those relationships in the first brief.

DECISIONS TO RESOLVE

1. Show the plot in section
Record the house floor, garden and adjacent ground levels. Ask whether the design depends on cutting into a slope or retaining ground, and identify the investigation needed before those elements are priced.
[ ] Gather: A measured section through the proposed footprint and adjoining ground.
Notes: ________________________________________

2. Keep water routes outside the new room
Locate existing drainage and record any known water movement across the plot. Consult area flood information where relevant and ask the designer to distinguish surface drainage from a wider flood assessment.
[ ] Gather: Drain locations, property reports and photographs of water routes.
Notes: ________________________________________

ADDRESS CHECKS
[ ] Confirm the authority using the full address: https://www.gov.uk/find-local-council
[ ] Establish applicable permissions with the relevant authority and advisers.

PRIMARY RESOURCES

Local maps & character documents
Selected links from the council’s directory. Use the named area and boundary to check relevance to your property; these documents do not apply to the whole postcode.
Eldwick Beck: https://www.bradford.gov.uk/environment/conservation-areas/eldwick-beck-conservation-area-assessment/
Bingley: https://www.bradford.gov.uk/environment/conservation-areas/bingley-conservation-area/

Bradford Council
Use the property record and the mapped conservation area, rather than assuming the whole postcode has one designation.
Planning history: https://www.bradford.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning-applications/view-planning-applications/
Conservation maps & assessments: https://www.bradford.gov.uk/environment/conservation-areas/list-of-conservation-areas/

Environment Agency
An area-level starting point for water-risk checks, not a prediction for an individual property or a diagnosis of drainage defects.
Check long-term flood risk: https://www.gov.uk/check-long-term-flood-risk

Resource review: 2026-10-16
No project cost, permission or availability is confirmed by this checklist.