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How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application.
How the Ministry of Defence estate is adapting to climate change, including nature conservation on the estate.
The research and development (R&D) spatial data tool allows users to access, visualise and compare indicators that show the scale of R&D systems at a subregional level.
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...
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
Performance and other updates following the publication of our latest official monthly statistics.
Sets out special provisions for Crown development for dealing with security-sensitive information in planning applications.
Major investments have been made in the past week alone
The Vaccine Development Evaluation Centre (VDEC) at Porton Down in Wiltshire facilitates the development and evaluation of new vaccines and therapeutics.
This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a proposed new building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Act 1984 (as amended by the Building Safety Act 2022) and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions)...
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...
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...
In most developing countries, the agricultural sector is critical to drive both economic growth and human development outcomes for rapid poverty reduction.
A new pathway supporting innovative approaches to the safe, timely and efficient development of medicines to improve patient access.
Sets out how we will jointly develop and deliver proposals, including the co-development process and overall delivery governance.
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.
Details on the new capacity and capability programme, to support local planning authorities to attract, retain and develop skilled planners.
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