We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Options for amending proposals that have planning permission.
Responding to suspected breaches of planning control.
Local plan examinations and the planning issues they deal with can be complex. This is intended as a short guide for those who might be participating in a local plan examination for the first time. It does not aim to...
Advises how to identify suitable mitigation and adaptation measures in the planning process to address the impacts of climate change.
Sets out special provisions for Crown development for dealing with security-sensitive information in planning applications.
Sets out process and expectations on pre-application discussions.
We carry out judicial reviews of decisions made by planning authorities, and hear other challenges to planning decisions. This includes appeals and applications relating to: planning permission development consent compulsory purchase orders highways and other rights of way decisions under...
Sets out the government's plans for housing and planning following the announcements in the 2020 Budget.
Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.
Explains how conditions attached to a planning permission should be used and discharged effectively
Guidance on the acceptance stage for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
Sets out key principles in understanding viability in plan making and decision taking.
Guidance to help local councils in developing policies for renewable and low carbon energy and identifies the planning considerations.
This guidance provides information about permission in principle - a new planning consent route.
Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.
Section 62A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 allows applications for planning permission and reserved matters consent to be made directly to the Secretary of State where the Local Planning Authority for the area has been designated for...
Decision letters on behalf of the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities about planning applications and appeals. Only applies to England.
Guidance on the National Policy Statements Review process.
When you need planning permission, where to apply, what counts as permitted development and how to appeal a planning permission decision
Check out your local council's emergency plan covering major incidents like flooding, flu pandemics and transport accidents
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).