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How developers can create and enhance habitat off-site or buy biodiversity units to achieve biodiversity net gain (BNG).
Sets out method for assessing housing and economic land availability.
How developers can create and enhance habitat on-site to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG).
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
The roadmap sets out the measures government is taking to maximise the future success of Freeports.
The sale of land is determined by the potential number of homes that a housing developer or registered provider can build on a given site.
Find out if you need to carry out the sequential test as part of your flood risk assessment and how to complete one.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
Guidance on the planning for mineral extraction in plan making and the application process.
How to use the calculators to work out a nutrient budget for residential developments in nutrient neutrality catchments.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
Provides guidance on making effective use of land, including planning for higher density development.
If a design code is being prepared for larger sites, it may be necessary to produce a masterplan as part of the design coding exercise. This masterplan will establish a new street network, decide which area types apply, along with...
Find out what to do and how much it costs to record allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development.
Information and guidance on Investment Zones operating within England.
Find out what to do if you need to register a biodiversity gain site and record allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development at the same time.
Video to help developers and operators of roadside HGV parking and driver welfare facilities to submit high quality planning applications.
‘Sites and services’ is a housing solution scheme for the poor where a serviced plot of land is bought for the inhabitant to build on and invest in
Supports effective delivery of planning application process.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
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