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The Designs Act 1949 allows us to give directions in some areas, so that we can react quickly to change.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
How to test if there are suitable, available and deliverable locations and sites for a garden community.
How to develop a management system for carrying out flood risk activities under an environmental permit.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
This guide illustrates how well-designed places that are beautiful, enduring and successful can be achieved in practice.
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.
Part of a series collecting key facts and figures on new homes and regeneration.
Information on the potential health impacts of drought in England and the measures that people can take to stay healthy during these events.
Supports effective delivery of planning application process.
Blogs where government organisations talk about their work and share information and ideas.
Find out what you should include in a heritage management plan, who to consult and the approval process for conditionally exempt properties.
Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.
This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023. It relates to the definition of higher-risk...
The government has announced proposals to modernise the planning system to get Britain building.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
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