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Sets out process and expectations on planning performance and decision making.
This guidance provides information about permission in principle - a new planning consent route.
Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
Options for amending proposals that have planning permission.
Sets out key principles in understanding viability in plan making and decision taking.
Guides councils in how to assess their housing needs.
Latest average timescales for planning, enforcement and householder appeals.
This guide illustrates how well-designed places that are beautiful, enduring and successful can be achieved in practice.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
Guidance on plan-making.
This guide explains, to those wanting to display an outdoor advertisement, how the system of advertisement control works in England.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
Provides further detail on First Homes and their implementation.
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
Guidance on 5 year housing land supply and Housing Delivery Test.
The local plan examination process and the role the Planning Inspectorate plays.
How principal accountable persons, or someone authorised to act for them, can register a high-rise residential building in England.
Sets out method for assessing housing and economic land availability.
The National Model Design Code provides detailed guidance on the production of design codes, guides and policies to promote successful design.
Sets out process and expectations on pre-application discussions.
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