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  • This guidance provides an overview of what the contribution caps for qualifying leaseholders’ non-cladding remediation are and how these will work in practice.

  • Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.

  • Government wrote to developers on 30 January 2023 asking them to sign a contract committing them to remediate unsafe buildings which they developed.

  • From 28 June 2022, the leaseholder protections on building safety costs in England have come into effect.

  • Guidance for heat suppliers.

  • Smart meters put consumers in control of their energy use, allowing them to adopt energy efficiency measures that can help save money on their energy bills and offset price increases.

  • Get information about biodiversity gain sites and any off-site gains allocated to developments.

  • Sets out key principles in understanding viability in plan making and decision taking.

  • Guides councils in how to assess their housing needs.

  • This guide illustrates how well-designed places that are beautiful, enduring and successful can be achieved in practice.

  • Sets out process and expectations on pre-application discussions.

  • When to use standing advice on site-specific flood risk assessments, and when to consult the Environment Agency.

  • Guides councils in preparing planning policies on housing for older and disabled people.

  • How to sell biodiversity units to developers for biodiversity net gain: explore the market, register a gain site and record allocations.

  • Information on inspecting garden and boundary walls

  • A guide for principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons to report incidents or risks of structural failure, or the spread of fire to the Building Safety Regulator.

  • This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions)…

  • The National Model Design Code provides detailed guidance on the production of design codes, guides and policies to promote successful design.

  • Guidance to help local councils in developing policies for renewable and low carbon energy and identifies the planning considerations.

  • The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.