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This guide illustrates how well-designed places that are beautiful, enduring and successful can be achieved in practice.
Design codes need to be based on a vision for how a place will develop in the future, as set out in the local plan. This vision needs to be developed with the local community and is likely to be...
How to test if there are suitable, available and deliverable locations and sites for a garden community.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
Information about creating long-term maintenance and management arrangements for your garden community.
How developers can create and enhance habitat on-site to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG).
This page tells you how to identify common constraints and designations within your forestry project’s proposal area and sets out what you must consider or do in relation to individual constraints.
Supports effective delivery of planning application process.
Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.
As a public authority, understand what the biodiversity duty is and how to comply with it.
Planning practice guidance on biodiversity net gain. Biodiversity net gain is a way of creating and improving biodiversity by requiring development to have a positive impact (‘net gain’) on biodiversity.
This section describes guidance for area types that authorities should consider when creating design codes or guides.
This publication is intended for Valuation Officers. It may contain links to internal resources that are not available through this version.
Find out what you can do to prevent tree pests and diseases from establishing and spreading.
How to assess a planning application when there are reptiles on or near a proposed development site.
The process of capturing some of the increase in land value which comes from policy decisions, the granting of planning permission by local authorities, or as a consequence of new or improved, publicly funded infrastructure projects.
How the Ministry of Defence estate is adapting to climate change, including nature conservation on the estate.
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