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Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
Guides councils in how to assess their housing needs.
Map showing the local nature recovery strategy (LNRS) areas in England and the responsible authority who will lead the preparation of each strategy.
Guidance on plan-making.
Strategies and useful tools to help improve parades of shops.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
An overarching summary of the Department for Levelling up, Housing and Communities’ evaluation approach for programmes which target local growth.
A foreword on the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ commitment to the evaluation of local growth programmes.
The toolkit provides step-by-step guidance for local authorities to develop an effective trees and woodland strategy to realise the multiple benefits trees can deliver to their communities.
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