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Latest average timescales for planning, enforcement and householder appeals.
Options for amending proposals that have planning permission.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
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.
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.
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.
Guidance on plan-making.
The responsibilities of each party and the roles they have in the planning appeal process.
This guidance describes each stage in the plan making process.
Provides further detail on First Homes and their implementation.
A booklet to help people assess whether an evergreen hedge is blocking too much daylight and sunlight to neighbouring properties.
Provides advice on when Transport Assessments and Transport Statements are required, and what they should contain.
Provides clarity on the need for sustainability appraisal and strategic environmental assessment in relation to plan development.
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