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Homeowners typically require a PRA when roof works, loft conversions, extensions, or structural alterations interact with buildings that could provide bat access or roosting opportunities. Solihull Council often requests confirmation that bats are not present before granting planning consent.
Developers require PRAs when existing buildings, mature trees, bridges, or other retained features form part of a planning submission. This allows planners to determine whether further bat surveys are legally necessary. PRAs are commonly needed for housing developments, conversions, brownfield regeneration, and infrastructure projects.
Completing a PRA early reduces the risk of seasonal delays, redesign costs, and unexpected licensing issues.
Across Solihull, Preliminary Roost Assessments are most commonly requested where development affects:
PRAs are routinely checked at validation wherever bat roost potential exists.
Our PRA services cover all Solihull districts and surrounding villages.
Solihull Council requires PRAs wherever buildings, trees, or structures may support roosting bats, in line with the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981, the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017, and national planning policy. Without a PRA, planners cannot lawfully decide whether dusk emergence surveys or protected-species licences are required. Missing evidence often results in validation delays, additional planning conditions, or seasonal restrictions.
Where a Solihull project involves demolition, conversion, roof replacement, or structural alterations, PRA evidence should be obtained before submitting the planning application.
Our Preliminary Roost Assessments in Solihull provide fully compliant reports accepted by local planning authorities. It prevents avoidable emergence delays, stabilises planning submissions and ensures that any further survey requirements are proportionate and justified.
Where bat scoping is required to support planning in Solihull, a PRA provides:
The outcome is clarity, certainty, and reduced project risk.
Proposed works, construction sequence and planning feedback are reviewed to define PRA scope.
Inspection of buildings, structures or trees for roost features and bat evidence in line with lawful survey guidance.
Roost potential classification and planning implications interpreted against LPA validation requirements.
Evidence is reported for planning submissions and coordinated with Bat Emergence Surveys or PEAs where required.
Need to confirm whether a Solihull property or development requires a Preliminary Roost Assessment?
Submit the site details and confirmation is provided before your application reaches validation.
Even low potential usually triggers at least one dusk emergence survey before demolition or conversion works are validated.
LPAs may request updated PRA evidence where building condition or surrounding habitat has changed, or if more than 18–24 months have passed.
Yes—unless recent, robust bat-survey data already exists, a PRA must be completed first to determine whether an emergence survey is necessary.
No. A PRA identifies risk and determines whether further surveys are required to establish presence or likely absence.
Not always, but where roost potential exists, the LPA usually requires a PRA before validation and may request dusk emergence surveys where risk remains.
Solihull Planning Links
Solihull Council – https://www.solihull.gov.uk/planning
Yes. PRAs are daytime inspections and can be undertaken year-round. Seasonal restrictions only apply to dusk emergence surveys.
