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Guidance on the content of a Development Consent Order required for a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project.
Sets out method for assessing housing and economic land availability.
Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.
Guidance on activities that may require a marine licence.
How land managers can combine biodiversity units and nutrient credits, and sell them alongside other environmental payments.
Guidance for local authorities on how to process complaints made about neighbouring high hedges.
Guidance on the pre-application stage for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
List of developers who have pledged to commit to remediate life critical fire safety works in buildings over 11 metres.
Responsibilities of accountable persons for a building’s safety case.
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
Guidance on the use of Habitats Regulations Assessment
How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.
What to include in a habitat management and monitoring plan (HMMP) to improve biodiversity for the long term.
This guidance outlines the obligations that the leaseholder protections in the Act place onto building owners, right-to-manage companies, resident management companies and named managers.
How developers can create and enhance habitat on-site to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG).
This guidance explains the different approaches to constructing a driveway or other paved area that controls and reduces rainfall runoff into drains by using permeable surfaces or soakaways and rain gardens.
Information for developers on how to avoid harming protected areas and species during development work.
How developers can create and enhance habitat off-site or buy biodiversity units to achieve biodiversity net gain (BNG).
Guidance about compensation to owners and occupiers of residential properties once a compulsory purchase order comes into force.
Use this service to apply for a building assessment certificate from the Building Safety Regulator.
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