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Advises how to take account of and address the risks associated with flooding and coastal change in the planning process.
Information on carrying out building work under the Party Wall etc Act 1996, or what to do if your neighbour tells you they're about to carry out work.
This guidance explains the information required to complete the leaseholder deed of certificate, and what information your current landlord must provide in the landlord’s certificate.
Explains the process for obtaining a lawful development certificate for existing or proposed use.
When and how to measure a habitat or development’s impact on biodiversity.
This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions)…
Fees guidance: explains planning related fees and the method of calculating them.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
Explains requirements of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017.
Explains how conditions attached to a planning permission should be used and discharged effectively
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Use of planning obligations and process for changing obligations.
Find details of a building inspector listed on the register of building inspectors for England.
Anyone in England can use this service to contact the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).
Find out about current competent person schemes to self-certify certain types of building work if you work in building as an installer.
This guidance clarifies the extent (or location) to which the leaseholder protections apply. It also explains what is meant by qualifying date and qualifying lease.
Sets out the process for efficient and inclusive consultation of planning applications
Building regulation in England to provide guidance on the design and layout of universal toilets, ambulant toilets and toilet cubicles.
When and how local planning authorities, developers and their agents should use climate change allowances in flood risk assessments.
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