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Options for amending proposals that have planning permission.
Explains control of advertisement regime.
Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
Guidance on what complaints local authorities can consider and how they will deal with them.
This guide explains, to those wanting to display an outdoor advertisement, how the system of advertisement control works in England.
Discover and register for Planning Inspectorate webinars.
Latest average timescales for planning, enforcement and householder appeals.
Guidance on how to settle your hedge differences without involving the local authority.
Guides councils in how to assess their housing needs.
Sets out key principles in understanding viability in plan making and decision taking.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
A guide to the flags that can be flown without permission from your local planning authority.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
This statutory guidance supports local planning authorities in England in implementing the national scheme of delegation for planning functions.
Guidance on 5 year housing land supply and Housing Delivery Test.
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.
Guidance on plan-making.
How principal accountable persons, or someone authorised to act for them, can register a high-rise residential building in England.
Provides further detail on First Homes and their implementation.
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