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