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This guidance provides information about permission in principle - a new planning consent route.
Use of planning obligations and process for changing obligations.
Advice on planning appeals and the award costs.
Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
Explains control of advertisement regime.
Discover and register for Planning Inspectorate webinars.
Guidance on what complaints local authorities can consider and how they will deal with them.
Latest average timescales for planning, enforcement and householder appeals.
Guides councils in how to assess their housing needs.
This guide explains, to those wanting to display an outdoor advertisement, how the system of advertisement control works in England.
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.
Guidance on 5 year housing land supply and Housing Delivery Test.
Provides an introduction to National Infrastructure Planning Guidance.
Guidance on how to settle your hedge differences without involving the local authority.
How digital tools, workflows and automation support site identification and assessment, with case studies from local planning authorities.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
Guidance on plan-making.
This guide illustrates how well-designed places that are beautiful, enduring and successful can be achieved in practice.
Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.
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