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Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
Options for amending proposals that have planning permission.
This guide explains, to those wanting to display an outdoor advertisement, how the system of advertisement control works in England.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
Use this service to apply to become a registered building inspector in England and Wales with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR), and pay your annual maintenance charge.
Guidance on how to settle your hedge differences without involving the local authority.
Latest average timescales for planning, enforcement and householder appeals.
Guides councils in how to assess their housing needs.
Sets out key principles in understanding viability in plan making and decision taking.
Guidance on plan-making.
This guide illustrates how well-designed places that are beautiful, enduring and successful can be achieved in practice.
The responsibilities of each party and the roles they have in the planning appeal process.
Provides further detail on First Homes and their implementation.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
Guidance on 5 year housing land supply and Housing Delivery Test.
How principal accountable persons, or someone authorised to act for them, can register a high-rise residential building in England.
Sets out process and expectations on pre-application discussions.
The local plan examination process and the role the Planning Inspectorate plays.
Guidance explaining why compulsory purchase orders are made, and what people's rights are to challenge them.
Provides advice on when Transport Assessments and Transport Statements are required, and what they should contain.
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