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Options for amending proposals that have planning permission.
This guidance provides information about permission in principle - a new planning consent route.
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.
Sets out key principles in understanding viability in plan making and decision taking.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
A guide to the flags that can be flown without permission from your local planning authority.
Guidance on how to settle your hedge differences without involving the local authority.
Guidance on plan-making.
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.
Discover and register for Planning Inspectorate webinars.
How principal accountable persons, or someone authorised to act for them, can register a high-rise residential building in England.
Provides advice on when Transport Assessments and Transport Statements are required, and what they should contain.
The local plan examination process and the role the Planning Inspectorate plays.
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