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Advice on planning appeals and the award costs.
Explains control of advertisement regime.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
How principal accountable persons, or someone authorised to act for them, can register a high-rise residential building in England.
A guide explaining how the planning system in England works.
A factsheet explaining the power to remove hope value from the assessment of compulsory purchase compensation
Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
This guide explains, to those wanting to display an outdoor advertisement, how the system of advertisement control works in England.
Guidance explaining why compulsory purchase orders are made, and what people's rights are to challenge them.
This guidance provides information about permission in principle - a new planning consent route.
Guidance on plan-making.
The National Model Design Code provides detailed guidance on the production of design codes, guides and policies to promote successful design.
This guide illustrates how well-designed places that are beautiful, enduring and successful can be achieved in practice.
Measures to ensure fire safety matters are incorporated at the planning stage for schemes involving a relevant high-rise residential building.
Guidance to help local councils in developing policies for renewable and low carbon energy and identifies the planning considerations.
Sets out key principles in understanding viability in plan making and decision taking.
Introducing the new pre-application service for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
Guides councils in how to assess their housing needs.
Use this service to apply to become a registered building inspector in England and Wales with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).
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