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A guide to the flags that can be flown without permission from your local planning authority.
Accredited official statistics on statutory homelessness applications, duties, and outcomes for local authorities in England.
Measures to ensure fire safety matters are incorporated at the planning stage for schemes involving a relevant high-rise residential building.
Guidance on how to determine whether a person is homeless or threatened with homelessness according to legislation.
This guidance provides an overview of what the contribution caps for qualifying leaseholders’ non-cladding remediation are and how these will work in practice.
This collection brings together all documents relating to local authority revenue expenditure and financing.
Contact your council if you run an establishment for massage or other special treatments and need a premises licence
Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.
This collection brings together the government's 'how to' guides for the housing sector.
Government wrote to developers on 30 January 2023 asking them to sign a contract committing them to remediate unsafe buildings which they developed.
From 28 June 2022, the leaseholder protections on building safety costs in England have come into effect.
How to buy a home: preparing to buy, deciding on a home, making offers, conveyancing, paying Stamp Duty Land Tax and making complaints.
Guidance on the provisions relating to an applicant’s local connection with an area and explains the procedures for referring an applicant to another housing authority.
When you need planning permission, where to apply, what counts as permitted development and how to appeal a planning permission decision.
Provides access to and updates on the status of existing and newly published National Infrastructure Planning Guidance.
Making thank you payments to sponsors, including across different councils. Also checking if guests are paying rent to sponsors, and what to do if they are.
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Sets out key principles in understanding viability in plan making and decision taking.
This guide is for current private residential landlords and anyone interested in letting a property in the private rented sector.
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