Provision of Extracts from Ordnance Survey Maps

With your Planning or Building Regulations application, you must submit copies of a location plan, preferably taken from an Ordnance Survey sheet and to a scale of 1:1250, clearly showing the location of the application site in relation to the adjacent properties.

The City Council does not supply these plans. You can purchase extracts from Ordnance Survey maps from the following sources:

• If you are making an on-line planning application via the Planning Portal, the Portal provides a link to purchase Ordnance Survey map extracts for the application: go to page www.planningportal.gov.uk/buyamap for further details. This page also contains useful guidance on what plans you need to submit.

• Customised Ordnance Survey maps are available from the Ordnance Survey: go to the Ordnance Survey website for details and information on stockists.

• In Leicester, you can buy commercial maps, and Ordnance Survey published and custom maps (including sets for planning and building applications) from the Official Ordnance Survey Maps Agent.

• Some Leicestershire County Council libraries (but not City Libraries at present) provide an Ordnance Survey Mapping service for planning applications. Go to the County Council's web site: www.leics.gov.uk/os_mapping_service for details.

Copyright

Applicants and agents must use a valid licensed plan to submit with Planning or Building Regulations applications.

Copying Ordnance Survey maps (which includes faxing, tracing and freehand copying) without a valid licence breaches OS copyright and could lead to proceedings being taken by Ordnance Survey against such breaches. Maps submitted with planning applications should be from recognised, approved sources that clearly show where the copy was obtained.

Note that downloading maps from the following sources for submitting with applications will be in breach of Ordnance Survey copyright:

• Maps copied from this web site.

• Maps copied from existing online planning applications, or from previously determined planning or building regulation applications.

• Local plan documents.

See also:

• Submission of plans with planning applications
• Checklists for planning applications

For further information and advice, please contact Planning .

Other maps

Commercial street maps and Ordnance Survey maps are available from most bookshops.