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This guidance provides information about permission in principle - a new planning consent route.
Options for amending proposals that have planning permission.
Advice on planning appeals and the award costs.
Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
Latest average timescales for planning, enforcement and householder appeals.
This guide explains, to those wanting to display an outdoor advertisement, how the system of advertisement control works in England.
Guidance on what complaints local authorities can consider and how they will deal with them.
Explains control of advertisement regime.
Guides councils in how to assess their housing needs.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
Sets out key principles in understanding viability in plan making and decision taking.
Guidance on plan-making.
Guidance on 5 year housing land supply and Housing Delivery Test.
Guidance on how to settle your hedge differences without involving the local authority.
Provides guidance on cost recovery by the Planning Inspectorate and public authorities enabled by Regulation 2A and Regulation 12A of the Infrastructure Planning (Fees) Regulations 2010.
This guide illustrates how well-designed places that are beautiful, enduring and successful can be achieved in practice.
The local plan examination process and the role the Planning Inspectorate plays.
Provides advice on when Transport Assessments and Transport Statements are required, and what they should contain.
Sets out process and expectations on pre-application discussions.
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