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Use this service to apply to become a registered building inspector in England and Wales with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR), and pay your annual maintenance charge.
Guidance on how to settle your hedge differences without involving the local authority.
Guide to called-in planning applications
Guides councils in preparing planning policies on housing for older and disabled people.
Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.
This advice explains how application documents and supporting information should be prepared, organised, and submitted to the Planning Inspectorate for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).
Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.
Advice on planning for the housing needs of different groups.
National Policy Statements are produced by government. They give reasons for the policy set out in the statement, and must include an explanation of how the policy takes account of government policy relating to the mitigatio…
Guidance on compulsory purchase process and a model compensation claim form for use by those affected by compulsory purchase.
This advice summarises the process for undertaking cumulative effects assessments in the context of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) under the Planning Act 2008.
How to complete a planning appeal form
Guidance to support local planning authorities in preparing and publishing brownfield land registers.
Sets out special provisions for Crown Development and Urgent Crown Development for dealing with security-sensitive information in planning applications.
Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy.
Advises how to identify suitable mitigation and adaptation measures in the planning process to address the impacts of climate change.
Advises on how to consider light within the planning system.
A booklet to help people assess whether an evergreen hedge is blocking too much daylight and sunlight to neighbouring properties.
Guidance to accompany pavement licensing introduced in the Business and Planning Act 2020.
This advice summarises the applicant and decision maker obligations under the Habitats Regulations in the context of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).
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